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 664. remove, mid.: thus,. ÇB. has (for ).

665. quit, act. (originally identical with the former), may further shorten the to : thus,  (AV.);  (AV.),  (TB.),  (TA.),  (TS. AB.). In the optative, the radical vowel is lost altogether; thus, (AV.). The 2d sing. impv., according to the grammarians, is or  or ; only the first appears quotable.

a. Forms from an -stem,, are made for this root, and even derivatives from a quasi-root.

666. give, mid.: thus,  (impf. without augment); and, with  in reduplication,. But AV. has.

a. In these verbs, the accent is generally constant on the reduplicating syllable.

667. The two roots and  (the commonest of the class) lose their radical vowel altogether in the weak forms, being shortened to  and. In 2d sing. impv. act., they form respectively and. In combination with a following or, the final  of  does not follow the special rule of combination of a final sonant aspirate (becoming  with the  or : 160), but — as also before  and  — the more general rules of aspirate and of surd and sonant combination; and its lost aspiration is thrown back upon the initial of the root (155).

668. The inflection of √ is, then, as follows: