Genetic Descent

petegray petegray at btinternet.com
Fri Jul 27 07:15:36 UTC 2001


> What do you call it when Hebrew or Swahili verbs are inflected for
> person etc?

I call it different from IE.  And Hebrew does indeed inflect a verb to show
the feminine, with exactly the same suffix as it uses on adjectives and some
nouns - this would be exactly parallel to using -ess on verbs.

Peter



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