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Rh passed into (e. g. in  secondary form of  "they", and in the Aphel  from haqṭel, &c.), falls away in pronunciation in many forms of the suffix of the 3rd sing. masc., e. g. malkau from malkauhī, "his kings";  "built it" (m.);  "kills him". The personal pronoun— "he" or "she"—loses the, when it is enclitic, e. g.  qe̊talū;  or  lēhū;  mānāi from mānā hī;  from mānā hū. In fact, , are often written for , ,. So always "not", from. From, come , : but  is occasionally written even yet, though we do not so often meet with.

The of  "fruit", falls away when employed as an enclitic:,  (§ 299), &c.

The of the very common verb  "to give" falls away in the Perfect in all cases where it had a vowel; thus, , , , &c. The East-Syrians suppress the even in cases like, &c., and similarly in , , &c.

For "Judah",  "a Jew", &c. (from, , &c.) one may say also , Yūδā, Yūδāyā. &c. are written even without.

§ 39. In Greek words is often written to express the aspirated ῥ, e. g. ,  (along with ,  and other forms of transcription) , &c. This has no consonantal value, and only in mistake is it treated occasionally as a true consonant.

§ 40. A. W beginning a root becomes y in Syriac, as in Hebrew, when it is not protected by certain prefixes. Root WLD thus yields "child";  "she bare"; but  "he begat";  "birth", &c. The initial w is however kept in, "and";  "it is becoming" (and so  f.;  "decently" &c.);  "an appointment" (and thus  "to appoint";  "to agree upon");  "vein"; add the interjection  "woe!", whence  "the woe"; so too  "bee-eater"; and  "a kind of partridge", which two words evidently are meant to re-