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INDONESIAN LINGUISTICS
be admitted, however, that the parallel is not very con-clusive, inasmuch as it does not occur in the same two languages[1]
71. Examples from the Northern Border. The Form, dialects are rich in cases of final mediae, but there is often a difficulty in finding parallels for them in other IN languages and thus correlating them with IN. The cases for which no such analogues can be discovered might, after all, be loan-words from non-IN forms of speech. Therefore it has seemed advisable to give a somewhat longer list in this connexion:
Form, dobdob : Tag. dobdob, "to poke the fire".
Form, laub : Bis. laob, "to roast".
Form, soab : Old Jav. suwab, "to yawn".
Form, abad : Pamp. babad, "to become damp".
Form, utod : Bis. otod, "crippled".
72. Examples from the South-Western Border. The Mentaway dictionary registers more than a dozen words with final mediæ, e.g., jud-jud, "high water", which is etymo-logically related to the añud of § 39, and bäb, "to hit (the goal)", which is identical with the Achinese bĕb, "to fall upon" (ef. Snouck Hurgronje, "Studien", p. 62).
73. To sum up the results of this discussion on the final mediae (§§ 65-72), we have succeeded in showing that in the Philippines, Celebes, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, the Malay Pen-insula, and on the Northern and South-Western Borders, that is in eight of our regions, there are languages which admit all sounds as finals, including the mediæ, or else formerly admitted them. Hence the conclusion: In Common IN any sound can be a final, always excepting the palatal consonants.[2]
74. Let us now just recapitulate the propositions estab-lished in the present Section, "Synthesis of Sounds into Words"; The Common IN word, apart from interjections
