Ad. [i]

Ad. [i]

A vowel that survived from Primitive Adûnaic into Classical Adûnaic (SD/422). It also arose in some circumstances from the consonant “y” [j] (SD/419). Where circumstances or grammatical inflections placed another vowel after [i], they were separated by a glide-consonant “y” (SD/424).

References ✧ SD/419, 424

Element In

Phonetic Development

Ad. [w] and [j] became [u] and [i] before consonants and finally iC|-i < jC|-j ✧ SD/419 ([yC|-y] > [iC|-i])
Ad. adjacent like vowels contract and lengthen ī < ii ✧ SD/424 ([ii] > [ī])