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Rh " ?";  bar bārōyat "thou art the son of the Creator";  dēḥayyēt " ", &c. Still in these cases the preservation of the separate portions is the more usual practice.

Amongst other instances we meet with extraordinary mutilations in the numerals of the second decade ; and farther in certain compounds.

§ 56. The Nestorians now put the tone on the penult throughout, and that very distinctly. The Maronites, on the other hand, put the tone always, or almost always, on the last syllable, when it is a closed syllable, e. g. ōzél,  qeṭlát,  nezdqéf,  yaumī&#769;n,  Ješū&#769;ʿ, and so also in endings with a diphthong, e. g.  etáu,  talmīdáu,  šabqū&#769;i,  ebnē&#769;u. On the other hand they always, or nearly always, put the tone on the penult, when the word ends in a simple vowel: étō,  nī&#769;tē,  ṣō&#769;bē,  néhwē,  ʿámō,  mélē,  sófrē,  hō&#769;nō &c. Occasionally a secondary tone also becomes perceptible. At an earlier time the final syllable invariably had the principal accent.