Tafel.] 3^^ [October. 



:)k (napkin), fs (lightsome), ft (lofty), ths (loathsome), 



tp (footpath), /s/i (hatchet), fk (half-cock), 8f (blissful), 



tk (kitcat), /./ (bookful), sp (jasper), shf (gashful), 



thf (truthful). 

 Those which s^re final: 



nil (width), JDZH (judge), zd (buzzed, prized), 



(7^ (heads), AS'2'(fast), Ms (cloths), 



ts (hits), tht (betrothed), P7' (apt), 



TSH (church), thd (breathed), KT (act), 



hd (daubed), gd (hugged), 



2)s (mishaps), SP (hasp), 



pfh (depth), FT (aft), 



KS (axe), SK (brisk), 



hz (tribes), GS (eggs), 



fth (twelfth), vs (lives). 



CH APT Ell IX. 



ON THE SEMI-VOWEL DIPHTHONGS. 



§ 21. The great difference between the semi-vowels and the conso- 

 nants becomes apparent in the combinations which they form both 

 umong themselves and with the consonants. For there the semi- 

 vowels display a much greater freedom than the consonants. Still 

 there is a distinction in this respect even among the semi-vowels 

 themselves, r and I being more independent than ??i, n, and n[/ ; for 

 these latter are more or less limited by their affinity to some one of 

 the articulating stations of the consonants. As a general thing, r 

 und / combine as readily with the labial as with the dental and gut- 

 tural consonants; and while the blown or non-sonant fluid consonants 

 only combine with the hard, and the sonant fluid consonants with the 

 soft consonants, all the semi-vowels combine as well with the former 

 us with the latter. The only difference is this, that when the semi- 

 vowels are preceded by a hard consonant, the aspirate by which these 

 [xYo usually followed renders the beginning of the semi-vowels mute, 

 while those which are preceded by a soft consonant are sonant from 

 their very beginning. There is another peculiarity distinguishing 

 the serai-vowel combinations or diphthongs from those of the conso- 

 nants, viz., that whatever may be the combination, the semi-vowel is 



