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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "Paul Zellmer" <pzellmer AT sc.rr.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] language level
  • Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:15:24 -0500

To obtain the root of a Hebrew word I remove from it all attached prepositions (admittedly, it is not always clear if a first letter is grammatical or radical, as in the word TAMAR), then I remove from it all, internal and external, personal pronouns (in other words I shed from it all vowels), then I ignore the letters aleph, ayin, and final he, which I consider mere filler letters, and am left with the root.
Thus, the root of AB, 'father, cloud, thick', is B. The root of E$, 'fire', is $. The root of 'EL, 'god', is L. The root of GA!, 'touch', is G. The root of OR, 'light', is R. The root of QUM, 'rise', is QM, the root of QIYR, 'wall', is QR. the root of ARBA, 'four', is RB. The root of ECBA, 'finger', is CB. And so on.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jan 30, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Paul Zellmer wrote:

Again, the language that we know as Hebrew has triliteral roots.





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