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The adjective ''erva'' "small" both begins and ends with a vowel, as seen from the Ammerkast and the original ''Širkattarnaft'' text. No mutation, vowel syncope, or other sandhi of ''úla'' "you" is indicated. While vowels usually lenite a stop to a fricative, they usually have no effect on a pre-existing fricative in the following word, unless the word has the determiner ''ha='' cliticized to it; such a case would trigger either palatalization and possibly syncope as in *''erva yulka''<sup>4</sup> << ''erva ha=vûluka''. | The adjective ''erva'' "small" both begins and ends with a vowel, as seen from the Ammerkast and the original ''Širkattarnaft'' text. No mutation, vowel syncope, or other sandhi of ''úla'' "you" is indicated. While vowels usually lenite a stop to a fricative, they usually have no effect on a pre-existing fricative in the following word, unless the word has the determiner ''ha='' cliticized to it; such a case would trigger either palatalization and possibly syncope as in *''erva yulka''[[Vadi#Footnotes |<sup>4</sup>]] << ''erva ha=vûluka''. | ||
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