de
sing. {h[u]s}, _house_.

Sec. 34.

Final {ch} after vowels interchanged with medial {h}, as {schuoch},
_shoe_, gen. {schuohes}; {h[o]ch}, _high_, gen. {h[o]hes}; {n[a]ch}, _near_,
adv. {n[a]he}; pret. {geschach}, {sach}, beside {gesch[e:]hen}, _to happen_,
{s[e:]hen}, _to see_.

The medial combinations {lh}, {rh} were written {lch}, {rch} when they
came to stand finally, as {bev[e:]lhen}, _to confide_, pret. {bevalch};
gen. {sch[e:]lhes}, {tw[e:]rhes}, beside nom. {sch[e:]lch}, {tw[e:]rch},
_askew_, see Sec. 19. {h} (= {ch}) and {ch} often disappeared in unstressed
syllables and particles, as {[)e]t}, _only_, {h[i]nte}, {h[i]nt},
_to-night_, {niet}, _not_, {dur}, _through_, beside {[e:]ht}, {h[i]naht},
{niht}, {nieht}, {durch}.

Sec. 35.

Initial {j} became or was written {g} before a following {i}, as
{gihet}, _he assures_, beside inf. {j[e:]hen}, pret. {jach}, and similarly
{j[e:]sen}, _to ferment_, {j[e:]ten}, _to weed_. In the verba pura forms with
and without the intervocalic glide {j} existed side by side in OHG. and
MHG., as {bl[u:]ejen} (OHG. {bluojen}) beside {bl[u:]en} (OHG. {bluoen}),
_to bloom_; and similarly {dr[ae]jen}, _to twist_, {m[u:]ejen}, _to trouble_,
{s[ae]jen}, _to sow_, beside {dr[ae]n}, {m[u:]en}, {s[ae]n}. In a few words
forms with and without intervocalic {j (g)} existed side by side, as gen.
{bl[i]ges} beside nom. {bl[i]}, _lead_; {eijer}, {eiger} beside {eier},
_eggs_; {fr[i]jen}, {fr[i]gen} beside {fr[i]en}, _to free_; {meige}, {meie},
_May_; {nerigen}, {nerjen} beside {nern}, _to save_, _rescue_;
{swerigen}, {swerjen} beside {swern}, _to swear_; gen. {zw[i]ges},
{zw[i]es}, nom. {zw[i]}, _twig_; gen. {zweiger}, {zweier}, _of two_.

Sec. 36.

In OHG. {w} became vocalized to {o} when it came to stand at the end of
a word or syllable, and then generally disappeared after long vowels,
but the medial {w} regularly remained in OHG. and MHG. when it was at
the beginning of a syllable, as {bl[a]} (OHG. {bl[a]o}, {bl[a]}), _blue_, gen.
{bl[a]wes}; {sn[e]} (OHG. {sn[e]o}, {sn[e]}), _snow_, gen. {sn[e]wes}; {str[o]}
(OHG. {strao}, {str[o]} by contraction), _straw_, gen. {str[o]wes}; {knie}
(OHG. {kneo}), _knee_, gen. {kniewes}, OHG. {kn[e:]wes}; {schate} (OHG.
{scato}), _shadow_, gen. {schat(e)wes}; pret. {blou}, {hiu}, {kou},
beside {bliuwen}, _to strike_, {houwen}, _to hew_, {kiuwen}, _to chew_;
{fal} (OHG. {falo}), _fallow_, gen. {falwes}; {gar} (OHG. {garo}),
_ready_, gen. {garwe