A Syriac grammar

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...where ' is found in-fl.o. Verbs having Olaph or Yud for the first radical may be referred to fl.o; for whenever u is destitute of a vowel, there Olaph has and Yud 1; when so has Olaph and Yud have the same. Pael, Aphel and Shaphel conjugations retain the first vowel immoveable, but the second they change in the same manner as in Peal. The affix--cto is used after Yud,--after those which end in o servile; this is the case throughout the conjugations. Infinitive. In the infin. Peal the last vowel is taken away, except with the suffixes aa and-a; but if it be % as in verbs having Vau the second radical, the vowel remains. In the other conjugations having the termination 6, L is added with the suffixes. Imperative. The imper. of all the conjugations, where the middle radical has any one of the vowels, or % does not change its form in the sing., and inserts Yud before the affixes. The vowel o in the plu. masc. is remitted to the first radical. Pael, Aphel and Shaphel conjugations, when the imper. agrees with the prset., cast away the vowel of the 2nd. radical before the suffixes; as,.-»cnaAso bring him. But verbs having the middle radical l, o or as well as. some paragogic forms, retain the vowel; as, «-oa=l do me good. Future. The 1st. pers. of both numbers, 2nd. pers. sing, masc., and 3rd. pers. sing, of both genders preserve the second vowel before the affixes aa and;but it is lost in the others. The remaining persons keep both vowels in all the forms. The verb Lwith Affixes. The forms which end in, viz., prset. Peal m.; Imp. Pael, Aphel and Shaphel in 3rd. pers. sing, masc. cast away l, but retain the vowel % by which the suffixes are annexed to the verb; as,, As, In the Inf. Peal the is changed into w moveable; as, f15, wu-.2xo, oi-iso; but before...