VOCABULARY.
NOUNS. |
misai, moustache. |
| jnis, sort, kind. | nyawa, life, soul. |
| kota, fort, fortified town. | taman, garden. |
| masa, time. | tiang, mast. |
EXERCISE XIX.
1 The people of Indrapura at that time had no king. 2 That house has a rock foundation. 3 A ship with three masts. 4 Four-legged animals. 5 The children were playing in the garden. 6 The gentleman who came had no monstache. 7 The king had no male child. 8 He saw the child running about in front of the king. 9 Wherever he went he was with Tun Manda. 10 All the birds in the garden were singing (bunyi) with various sounds. 11 The wind was blowing very strong. 12 Holding on with both hands. 13 The men were calling from the ship. 14 He made the fence round the palace into a fort.
LESSON XX.
Derivative Nouns.
119. Nouns may be derived from verbs and other parts of speech by means of prefixes and suffixes.
(a) The Prefix “p.”
120. Nouns formed with the prefix p usually denote the agents as, pminum, a drunkard, from minum, to drink.
121. This prefix is modified according to the initial letter of the root to which it is affixed in precisely the same manner as described in paragraph 102 in the case of the prefix m. Thus:—
pnchuri from churi.
pmbunoh from bunoh.
pnyapu from sapu.
pngajar from ajar.
Execptions to this rule are pnyuroh, which means not the sender but the person sent, and pnyakit, which means illness, disease. The root suroh has also the irregular form psuroh, which has the same meaning as pnyuroh.
(b) Prefix “p” and suffix “an.”
122. Abstract nouns, expressing cither a quality or an action, are formed by prefixing p in its various forms as explained in the
