Re: [tied] All of creation in Six and Seven

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 18:17:49 +0100 (MET), Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
<jer@...> wrote:

>In Brockelmann's Semitische Sprachwissenschaft (a Sammlung Goeschen digest
>of 1906 later blown up to the big Grundriss, vol. I of 1908) I read p.
>61 that Ethiopian has retained the free Semitic accent, if not always in
>its original position. The numerals are given p. 116, the Eth. form of the
>fem. of seven being /sab(atu:/ with accent on the long /u:/;

I don't have a Ge'ez dictionary handy, but as far as my sources say, the
feminine is <sab`ú:>. For the masculine, I have only <sab`atu> (Mark
Rosenfelders numbers page gives something like <s&b`atu>, with vocalization
presumably more like Amharic <säb`átt>).

>I see also in Christian Sarauw's posthumous study "Ueber Akzent und
>Silbenbildung in den aelteren semitischen Sprachen" from 1939 that a rule
>is posited for "Altsemitisch" (whatever that is) stipulating that the
>accent goes on the vowel preceding the last consonant of the word.

Which means *sab`át-.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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