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§ 40. produce the natural calls of these birds. Other words beginning with like  "rose" are foreign or uncertain.

B. and  have both of them too much of the nature of vowels to be able to stand as true consonants in the end of a syllable; they always form in that case simple vowels or diphthongs, thus:  "promise" (with  šaudī "promised") šūdāyā, not šuvdāyā, for it was frequently even written with just one ) ;  lau "not", not lav (from lā-ū, lāhū § 38);  (East-Syrian ) "called" qe̊rau;  "revealed" (3 pl.) gallīu (not gallīv) ;  "house" baitā;  "rise" qāimīn;  "Edessena" Orhāitā, &c.

C. without a full vowel always becomes ī in the beginning of the syllable. In the beginning of a word is often written for it; thus,  īthev "sat", from ; ,  īδaʿ "knew", from ; ,  "knowledge"; ,  "month" (emphatic state ); farther,  or ,  or  &c. In later times the is not so often written in such cases as it was in earlier days. But still the is always found in  "honour",  "hand",  "day", and thus in,  &c. On along with, and  instead of  v. § 38.

So too, within the word, "is given", from ;&lrm;  "their breast", from  ;  "cap", from ;  "their commotion", from, &c.

In a closed syllable ye or yi becomes ī in "exists", and in the foreign names  or  "Israel";  "Ismael" (both with orthographic variants);  (for ); and. Quite exceptionally, other forms are found, v. § 175 A, Rem.

For "Jesus" the Nestorians say  Īšōʿ.