ARABIC-L: LING: Long vowels response

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Arabic-L: Fri 08 Jan 1999
Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu>
[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu]
[To unsubscribe, send message to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading:
          unsubscribe arabic-l                                      ]

-------------------------Directory-------------------------------------

1) Subject: Long vowels response

-------------------------Messages--------------------------------------
1)
Date: 08 Jan 1999
From: "R. Hoberman" <rdhoberman at ccmail.sunysb.edu>
Subject: Long vowels response

In all the examples of words with three long vowels posted so far, one of
the vowels has been in an inflectional suffix (-aat, -aani, -uuna). Trying
to think of any with three long vowels in the stem I come up with
&aashuuraa' (&=&ayn), though here too the -aa' is a suffix, but a
derivational one I suppose.  The interesting thing is that this word
apparently has a variant with a short first vowel:  &ashuuraa', suggesting
that words with three long vowels might be somehow anomalous, not just
rare. Are there other nouns on this wazn?

Bob Hoberman

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
End of Arabic-L: 08 Jan 1999