A manual of the Chaldee language - PubMan

(b) If the ground-form commences with a sibilant, [v,
0, X, ip or ii] the n is inserted after that letter; e. g.
?>~Ubl.
..-.
. .. But afier i, it is changed into t ; as '~P?;D(
froi jar. -:
The signification of these forms is not merely passive,
but sometimes reflexive or reciprocal; as +nn# ..... to oas
aJ1 together ; frequently, even in the sense of' ihe Greek
middle voice ; e. -g. 'jqn ... b~ to get an advantage.
. .
Moods and Tenses.
6. All these conjugations have, in both active and pas-
sive voices, the Praeter and Future tenses, the Infinitive
and Imperative moods, and the Participle. The actives
have two participles throughout. All these arise out of
the ground-fom, mediately or immediately, by the inser-
tion of formative letters, or by a different pronunciation of
the radicals, or by both together. The different per-
sons of the Praeter and Imperative are formed, as in He-
brew, by sutfixes, and the Future by prefixes and suffixes,
originally fragments of personal pronouns
7. Verbs are either regular or irregular. The former
class includes all those verbs, the radicals of which re
main unchanged throughout all their inflections ; the lat-
ter, those which suffer a change or omission of one or
two radicals.
5 11. In&tion of the Regular Verb.
1. M&t nearly connected with the Praeter stands the
Imperative, from which the future is derived. The Imperative
of Peal is characterised by the vowel ,., those
of Pael and Aphel are pronounced like the Praeter.
2 The is derived from the' Imperative by pre
fixing 9 ; which is pronounced in Peal with , in Pael with
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