Arabic-L:LING:2-letter root responses

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date: 08 Dec  2003
From: Dilworth Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:2-letter root response

What you heard probably relates to recent proposals that look into the
idea that although the 3-letter root still functions at the basic
morphology level, that historically there are MANY words of similar
meanings that share two of the three letters, and that originally
(either historically or more deeply embedded in the language mechanism)
the three letter system developed out of a two letter system (of
course, they are usually not referred to as 'letters').
I know that Bohas has made proposals like this, and it seems like I
have heard others do so as well.  Try:

Georges Bohas, Matrices, etymons, racines: elements d'une theorie
lexicologique du vocabulaire arabe (Mirena Mehandjiyska)

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Date: 08 Dec  2003
From: Rafik Berjak <rberjak at shaw.ca>
Subject:2-letter root response

Hi,
You said you heard. Can you please explaine in a little more details.
The
Arabic language is based on the 3-letters rout. the imperative is
actually a
three-letter verb but in some cases it would lose one or two letters if
these letters were 'Ill letters. (Alif, wow, yaa). All the Arabic
lexicons
Like Lisan Al Arab and Al Qamoos Al Muheed are written on this base.
Hope
this helps.
Rafik Berjak

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Date: 08 Dec  2003
From: Mohammad <mohd at mail.ukans.edu>
Subject:2-letter root response

Arabic is a 3-consonant root language. This applies to content words
whether
they are nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs. Whenever the word shows
only 2
consonants, it's a result of gemination: two consonants of the same
features
merged in one as is the case with imperatives or past tense forms of
some
verbs with certain pronouns. So 'shid' meaning 'pull [2nd person
masculine]
imperative' or 'shad' meaning 'he pulled' are originaaly /shidid/, and
/shadad/, vowels being short in both cases.
Mohammad

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