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§ 28. N, as first radical, is almost always assimilated to the consonant immediately following it: "brought out", from anpeq;  "goes out", from nenpoq;  "brings down", from manḥeth;  "plantest", from tenṣov, &c. Exception is made when follows:  "roars";  "grows clear";  "lights", &c. (yet "thrusts" from nenhaz), and in other very rare cases (§ 173 A).

As second radical, n is assimilated in some nouns: "necklace";  "oppression";  "face";  "side";  "occasion";  "foundation", from ʿenqā &c.,—as against  "congregation";,  "tail", which originally must have had a short vowel after the n, &c.

Farther, n loses its sound in many cases before of the feminine ending:  ge̊fettā from ge̊fentā "vine";  "cheese";  "brick";  "a field-measure";,  "fig"; and with n still written, in  "town";  "ship";  "a time";  "year"; and in  "incense", the n of which is still pronounced by others.

In gabbārā "hero", the nasal which serves as compensation for the doubling has been stroked out later.

On the dropping off of the n in the Imperative v. § 171 C, and in certain substantives, § 105.

§ 29. L falls away when next to another l, in mamlā "speech", written also in fact ; and in  maṭlā "covering". Thus most Syrians say qovlā "countenance" (others qovelā).

It farther falls away in many forms which come from "to go" (v. § 183), as also in forms from  (v. same section).

§ 30. R falls out in "daughter", construct state—(but not in the emphatic state ).