Arabic-L:LING:Onomatopoeia

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Date: 03 Jan 2007
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Onomatopoeia


      "[Sibawayhi] can even say of the onomatopoeic word  /ghaaq/   
'caw', 'this is the way the crow speaks'

/qaala  l-ghuraabu  haadhaa  l-naHwa/.  This may explain why  /naHw/   
has become the term for grammar

per se..."  Carter, Michael.  *Sibawayhi* (Oxford  2004).  p.  60   
end.                     --mike schub

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