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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3- nounced exceedingly lightly, so that their disappearance is easier than it would be, were they sounded as strongly as in our language. X. 25. (1) Kk becomes k. That is to say, when the final syllable of kukka, textit{flower, becomes closed by the addition of n, one of the k's is dropped, and we have kukan for kukkan. So kirkko, kirkossa. 26. (2) nk becomes ng. Aurinko, textit{sun, forms the genitive auringon. Kaupunki, textit{town, kaupungin. 27. (3) Ik, rk become simply l, r, but if followed by e, lJ, rj. For example, jalka, textit{a foot, genitive jalan; marka, textit{wet, genitive maran; kulke, textit{leave, kuljen, textit{I leave; sarke, textit{break, sarjen, / textit{break. hk generally becomes simply h, but may remain unchanged, tuhka, textit{ash, genitive tuhan, but sometimes tuhkan; sahko, textit{electricity, genitive sahon. In old Finnish such forms as tuhvan are found. 28. (4) Between two vowels k generally is lost altogether when the syllable is closed; take, textit{forge, taon, / textit{forge; vika, textit{a fault, genitive vian. If the k is preceded by a diphthong ending in i or by simple i, a j is developed when k falls out: thus aika, textit{time, poika, textit{boy, ika, textit{life, make ajan, pojan, ijan. Similarly when k falls out between two u's or two y's, a v is developed, at any rate in pronunciation. The orthography varies between uu and uvu, but the latter is generally adopted when there is any ambiguity, e. g, puvun, from puku, textit{clothes, not puun, because this is liable to be confused with puun, the genitive of puu, textit{a tree; suvun from suku, textit{a family; but sunn from Buu, textit{a month; luvun from luku, textit{a number, but luun from luu, a textit{bone. 29. (5) sk, tk remain unchanged, lasku, laskun, itku, itkun. T. (1) tt become...
