Re: full

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From: Patrick Ryan

To: Cybalist

Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 5:51 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: full

 

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From: fournet.arnaud

To: cybalist@... s.com

Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 3:03 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: full

 

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There are a number of prefixes like ?a- that can be added to Arabic verbs to produce various nuances of the basic verbal idea but note: these are added to triliterals. ?a to f-l-H.

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A.F

This is the Form IV of Arab grammarians.

Very often it does not change the meaning, but transitivity.

It can be further expanded as form XII

 

Your last statement : **added to tri-literals* * is false :

 

zaqq : to jump = ?azaq (z_q : 2)

aqlawla : to fly in the air very high : Form XII (q_l : 2) 

 

Apart from a good dictionary of Arabic, I warmly recommend you also get a good grammar.

 

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z-q-q is a triliteral (geminate): Form IV would be ?azqaqa.

 

Do you dispute this?

 

PCR

 

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CORRECTION: Form IV would be ?azaqqa (notice geminated final).

 

PCR

 

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