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. i. (1) Verbs whose stems end in ‑o- or ‑a- (mostly from Brit, ‑og- or ‑od- and ‑ag-) have many contracted forms, more especially in the Mn. language. The following tables show all the possible contractions; the accent is marked in each case, and the accented vowels which are long in the present pronunciation are so marked, all others being short. Forms that are never contracted are distinguished by a hyphen, as parhḗ-ais. Any other form may occur uncontracted; thus trṓ-af as well as trōf occurs in Mn. W.

Exx. trṓf for trṓ-af ‘I turn’ (paratṓf for paratṓ-af ‘I prepare’); parhā́f for parhā́‑af ‘I continue’ (glanhā́f for glanha-af ‘I clean’).