s}; {m[e:]l} (OHG. {m[e:]lo}), _meal_, gen. {m[e:]lwes};
{sm[e:]r} (OHG. {sm[e:]ro}), _fat_; pret. {smirte}, {str[o:]ute}, beside
{smirwen}, _to smear_, {str[o:]uwen}, _to strew_. See Sec. 9, r.

The {w} element sometimes disappeared in the initial combinations
{qua-}, {qu[a]-}, {qu[e:]-}, {qui-}, {qu[i]-} partly with and partly without
influencing the quality of the following vowel, as pret. sing. {kam},
{kom} beside {quam}, _he came_, pret. pl. {k[o]men}, {k[a]men} beside
{qu[a]men}; {k[a]le} beside {qu[a]le}, _torture_; {k[e:]c} beside {quec},
_alive_; {korder}, {k[o:]rder} beside {qu[e:]rder}, _bait_; {komen},
{k[o:]men}, {kumen} beside {qu[e:]men}, _to come_; pres. sing. {kume},
{k[u:]m(e)s(t)}, {kum(e)s(t)}, {k[u:]m(e)t}, {kum(e)t} = OHG. {quimu},
{quimis}, {quimit}; {k[u:]cken} beside {quicken}, _to enliven_; {k[i]t}
beside {qu[i]t} = {quidet}, _he says_.

Sec. 37.

Medial {-ibe-}, {-ide-}, {-ige-} were sometimes contracted to {[i]}; and
medial {-age-}, {-ege-} to {ei}, as {g[i]st}, _thou givest_, {g[i]t}, _he
gives_, beside {gibes(t)}, {gibet}; {qu[i]st}, _thou sayest_, {qu[i]t}, _he
says_, beside {quides(t)}, {quidet}; {l[i]st}, _thou liest down_, {l[i]t},
_he lies down_, beside {liges(t)}, {liget}. {meit} beside {maget},
_maid_; {seist}, _thou sayest_, {seit}, _he says_, beside {sages(t)},
{saget}; {leist}, _thou layest_, {leit}, _he lays_, beside {leges(t)},
{leget}; {eisl[i]ch} beside {egesl[i]ch}, _terrible_; {gein} beside {gegen},
_against_.

Sec. 38.

Intervocalic {h} often disappeared when the first vowel was long, and
then the two vowels underwent contraction, as {h[a]n}, _to hang_, {v[a]n},
_to catch_, {vl[e]n}, _to implore_, {h[o]} (adv.), _high_, beside {h[a]hen},
{v[a]hen}, {vl[e]hen}, {h[o]he}. Other contracted forms will be found in the
Glossary.

Sec. 39.

The final {r} disappeared after long vowels in monosyllables when the
next word began with a consonant, but was often restored analogically,
as {d[a]} (OHG. {d[a]r}), _there_: {d[a]rinne}, _therein_; {w[a]} (OHG.
{w[a]r}), _where_: {w[a]rinne}, _wherein_; {hie} (OHG. {hiar}): {hierunder},
_hereunder_; adv. {m[e]} (OHG. {m[e]r}), _more_; {[e]} (OHG. {[e]r}),
_formerly_; {s[a]} (OHG. {s[a]r}), _at once_.

Sec. 40.

Medial {t} (Sec. 25) became {d} after nasals in late OHG. and early MHG.,
as {senden}, _to send_, gen. {blindes} (nom. {blint}, _blind_), pret.
{nande}, _he named_, {r[u]mde}, _he left_, beside early MHG. {senten},