A manual of the Chaldee language - PubMan

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(2) Long *els take the place of short -+I pam~ ; as
qPP he32 ~ D Dar1.46, Y n~~en4:ll.nhdll Ex.
h* : -3- : hr nr I
4: 13. (though this IS not nniversaUy the case ; comp
I h 2: 9, 17.) ;-before a guttural which would regularly
be doubled ; as 7>3Z1 instead of #P?En .:.. i~
stead of #Pl#D, r :- (althoGh this likewise is not without e x
ceptions, especially if the guttural be 3 or n . Dan 4: 16,
*%);-before other consonants, less frequently ; as 17~2*!
instead of ~S'I~N .-. Gen 38: 9. Ps. Jon see 5 6. a. ;-when
a quiescent which would regularly have a composite She
va, drop it and quiesces in the precedii vowel; as
117~3 . - .. instead of 197~5 . - . . .-43) It is for the sake of euphony
that, in final syiiables which terminate in a guttural,.
Pattahh is usually found before it, instead of the usual characteristic
vowel; as n2d.1 . . instead of n$d*, . . n* instead
of .. - ; also that whin a syllable ternhates in a quies
cent preceded by a heterogeneous vowel, that vowel becomes
homogeneous ; e. g. nqb'l~ instead of nqb'IN_.
The,- of simple syllables, in which long vowels have displaced
the short ones, does not belong here. In most of these instances, the
punctuators probably employed the short vowels; and such forms as
IP??, 97pZ occur only in particular editions.
b. Transposition of. vowels takes place in some mone
syllabic forms of verbs, the vowel of which is between
the two last radicals, when they receive a pronominal suffix;
as R$D~ from 5~p;-also in some contracted forms
If '
of verbs PP ; as 379 ..- for ?~.7~;-and finally, in cases like
Qlp for n!?, 1Qn for 9RYD .. - . ; when the moveable Y or 7 ,
etc throws back to the 'preceding ' consonant its own
vowel, for the sake of quiescing in it.
c. Vowels are dropped, in the final syllable of ground-
. .