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(8) The idea to eat may be expressed by verbs denoting to 

 CHEW, TO BREAK, TO SWALLOW, etc., witli nominal object; by the 

 suffixes -q.'ES and -g' (see § 34, nos. 149, 149a) or by reduphcation. 

 The last method is most frequently used with words with mono- 

 syllabic stem. This form of reduplication differs from those pre- 

 viously described in that the first syllable retains the stem form 

 almost unmodified, except by contact phenomena, while the second 

 syllable has always an a vowel, accented and long, when the stem 

 vowel is short, unaccented and short when the stem vowel is long. 

 Stems ending in a consonantic cluster have also the second syllable 

 unaccented. The syllable loses at the same time all those conso- 

 nants of the terminal cluster that precede the last one. 



(a) Monosyllabic stems with single terminal consonant and short 



