This template is used when needing to combine two vowels in Amharic comform its rules of elision. It has three parameters:
|1=
The initial syllable|2=
The succeeding vowel|w=
(optional) Used to triggers the elisions rather than )Thus:
{{am-vmerge|ሃ|ኣ}}
(ha|a) yields ሃ
(ha).{{am-vmerge|ሎ|ኦ}}
(lo|o) yields ሎ
(lo).{{am-vmerge|ሎ|ኦ|w=1}}
(lo|o) yields ሎዎ
(lowo)When no elision can happen, no text is generated.