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  with Baer and Ginsb., is to be preferred to the reading of ed. Mant., &c.

(d) Conversely all forms of imperfects consecutive, whose final syllable, when not in, loses the tone and is pronounced with a short vowel, take, when in , the tone on the ultima with a tone-long vowel, e.g. , in.

Of other effects of the we have still to mention, (1) the transition of an ē (lengthened from ĭ) to the more distinct ă (see above, l), e.g.  for   (cf. ; d);  ;   (beside  [, see v. 37. Cf.   ;  ;  ;  ;   (below, )—S. R. D.]);  ;  ;  ; , mostly before liquids or sibilants (but also  , and without the   ). So also (shortened from ) becomes in  ; cf. ; for. On in  instead of Ṣere, el. , 60 d, and especially, on  and.

(2) The transition from ă to è in the ultima; so always in the formula (for ) for ever and ever.

(3) The pausal Qameṣ (according to, lengthened from original ă) in (but not in ) for , e.g.   for. But pausal forms like, (in the absol. st. , ) go back to a secondary form of the ''abs. st.'',.

(4) The restoration of a final Yodh which has been dropped from the stem, together with the preceding vowel, e.g., , for , , the latter also without the  ; cf. , and the same occurrence even in the word before the,.

(5) The transition from ô or ō to ā in : as, if it be a locative of , and not rather imperat. Qal of ;  for ;  ;  ; perhaps also , , and  , cf. . On the other hand the regular pausal form (ordinary imperfect ) corresponds to a perfect  (see ).

(6) When a both precedes and follows a virtually strengthened guttural, the second becomes ā in, and the first , according to  and , e.g. , in. Similarly in cases where an original after a guttural has been attenuated to i out of, and then lengthened to ē with the tone (cf. ), e.g. , but in pause  ; cf. ,, , .—On pausal , for , in infin., imperat., and imperf. of verbs, see h.

[Other instances of the full vowel in lesser pause, where the voice would naturally rest on the word, are, , , , , , and very often in such cases.]