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 Paradigm IV: originally changeable vowel in the first syllable, unchangeable in the second, (a), , properly ; , properly ; (b).

2. A simple is added as feminine ending in forms like  (masc., , a), ; but feminine participles of verbs , as , , may be due to contraction from yôṣèʾet, &c. (hardly to lengthening of the ĭ in the ground-form môṣi), whilst forms like, (see ) are to be explained on the analogy of the forms treated in. Apart from the formations, we find the simple  in the participle , contracted from. But,  is the ground-form of the ptcp. (as in the same connexion in, ), cf. and the Qere, &c., discussed in.

The forms which arise by appending the feminine to masculine nouns with a changeable vowel in a closed final syllable are, as a rule, developed exactly in the same way as masculine segholate forms. Thus there arise in Paradigm I (a) from (for original gebirt; ), the form  (but only in construct st.; in  also  are to be taken together; the absolute st. is ); from,  (in Paradigm II, a);  ( = ) ; (c) ,  (from  = gedirt; cf.  as construct st. of ); on the other hand,  is construct st. of , with lengthening of the original ĭ of.

Formations with a changeable ō in the second syllable belonging to this class are (from ),  the ''constr. st. of, perhaps also (unless it be obscured from , , Paradigm IV, c).—Paradigm III, (a)  (from ), masc. ; (b)  (properly sucking) sprout'' (in , e.g.  , &c.), and so most feminines of participles. On this transition of the ground-form qôṭilt to (regularly before suffixes in, , &c.), cf. ; qôṭalt serves as the ground-form under the influenee of a guttural as well as before suffixes, e.g., feminine of ; in a wider sense, may also be included here, see , Paradigm IV, c.

On the endings and, see , ,  at the end.

In accordance with the general formative laws, stated in –, the following cases have chiefly to be considered in the flexion of