Rule 2: When the medial wāw of a simple-triliteral perfect drops because of meeting quiescent letters, and the original perfect does not have kasrah on its middle radical, give the first radical ḍammah.
قَوَلْنَ → قُلْنَ — the women said.
The related first-person form is قُلْتُ — I said. Wāw disappears and qāf carries ḍammah.
The condition matters: not every wāw-hollow perfect follows this same preceding-vowel outcome.
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Rule 2: Ḍammah after Wāw Elision
Hollow Verbs: Seven Iʿlāl Rules and Three Short Paradigms
Rule 2: When the medial wāw of a simple-triliteral perfect drops because of meeting quiescent letters, and the original perfect does not have kasrah on its middle radical, give the first radical ḍammah.
قَوَلْنَ → قُلْنَ — the women said.
The related first-person form is قُلْتُ — I said. Wāw disappears and qāf carries ḍammah.
The condition matters: not every wāw-hollow perfect follows this same preceding-vowel outcome.