[b-hebrew] RE Jussive of QWM - QUM or QOM?

Yitzhak Sapir yitzhaksapir at gmail.com
Sat May 31 18:38:53 EDT 2008


On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:54 PM, David Steinberg wrote:

> Joulon_Murakoa p. 213 states

That's Jouon and Muraoka...

>
> "The active future is *YAQU:M ... The Jussive originally had the short u
> (reduced state), eg. *YAQUM which usually became YAQOM..."

I am not sure what the full quote here is, but I think perhaps the discussion
is about general medial-waw verbs and not specifically qwm, even if qwm
is used as the paradigm and is one of those that did not become "yaqom".

Yitzhak Sapir


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