Note 6 — GHÁNAH — Aúdaghost — Aúlíl.

Ghánah غَانَة and غَانَةَ (MS. B.M.). The final hé ﻪ of the Arabs, when pointed ﺔ, is pronounced as t before a vowel; غَانَة and غَانَةَ therefore, when not immediately followed by consonants, are read Ghánat̤ and Ghánat̤a. But the suppression of the t in this instance seems to be due altogether to the analogies of the Arabic language, and probably was not always imitated by the Berbers, in which language t is a frequent termination. Hence it is not surprising that in an extract from El Bekrí, sent from Tripoli by M. Gråberg af Hemsö, to M. Jaubert (Recueil, &c. par la Soc. de Géogr. tom. II. 1825), we should find Ghánat غَانَتْ constantly written instead of Ghánah غانه. The importance of this remark will appear hereafter.