The suffix morpheme of the prefix conjugation in the first person is -t, as in Arabic and Northwest Semitic, as opposed to the -k of Ancient South Arabian and Ethiopic. The dative preposition is nm, which appears to be an assimilated form of an original *lima. The consonant /n/ often assimilates to a following contiguous consonant, ʔṯt from earlier *ʾVnṯat and ʔt from earlier *[ʔanta].