Ad. [u]
A vowel that survived from Primitive Adûnaic into Classical Adûnaic (SD/422). It also arose in some circumstances from the consonant [w] (SD/419). Where circumstances or grammatical inflections placed another vowel after [u], they were separated by a glide-consonant “w” (SD/424), sometimes spelled “v” (SD/434).
References ✧ SD/419, 424
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✧ SD/419 ([wC|-w] > [uC|-u]) |
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✧ SD/424 ([uu] > [ū]) |