| káun | /káʔun/ | eat | + | -a | = | kan-a | /kánʔa/ | eat it (with the final syllable of the root dropped). |
| luhud | /luhúd/ | kneel | + | -an | = | ludhan | /lúdhan/ | kneel on (with the vowel of the final syllable of the root dropped). |
The sequences /ʔVh/ usually becomes /hVʔ/ (where V is a vowel):
| túu | /túʔu/ | believe | + | -an | = | tuhúan | /tuhū́ʔan/ | believable (where /h/ is intercalated by the rule of 5.13). |
Sequences of a liquid or /s/ plus a consonant tend to be metathesized when a suffix is added if the vowel of the final syllable of the root is dropped.
| ngálan | /ŋálan/ | name | + | -an | = | nganlan | /ŋánlan/ | be named |
| sulud | /sulúd/ | enter | + | -un | = | sudlun | /súdlun/ | enter it |
| inum | /ʔinúm/ | drink | + | -a | = | imna | /ʔímna/ | drink it |
| putus | /putús/ | wrap | + | -un | = | pustun | /pústun/ | wrap it |
| lusut | /lusút/ | go through | + | -an | = | lutsan | /lū́can/ | go through it |
These alternations also manifest themselves in competing root forms: alhu /ʔálhu/ and hal-u /halʔu/ ‘pestle’; kalamunggay and kamalunggay ‘k.o. tree’.
5.15 Change of /r/ or /l/ to /d, g, h/
Intervocalically, /d/ usually becomes /r/ or, less frequently, /l/:
| búkid | mountain | + | ka-an | = | kabukíran or, alternatively, kabukílan mountains |
Vice versa, in roots with intervocalic /l/ or /r/, the /l/ or /r/ may change to /d/ when final or abutting on a consonant.