Arabic "expanded" roots

Stanley Friesen sarima at friesen.net
Fri Mar 3 03:50:37 UTC 2000


At 08:39 PM 3/1/00 +0100, Stefan Georg wrote:

>I confess that I don't know what an "expanded" variant of an Arabic root
>is. What I do know, however, is that *every* Arabic verb form has vowels.

That is what I meant.  I do not know the correct terminology for
differentiating between the "pure" triconsonantal root and the actually
spoken forms that, naturally, have vowels.

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