Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Vadim:

What about XNML,  XSPS, XCCR, XRGL, XR+M, XRM$, X$ML and I don't know how 
many more, just from looking at a few pages of the dictionary.

As for the triliteral root, that is a medieval invention, during which time 
they added a medial yod or waw to many biliteral roots, and I wonder how many 
doubled ayins roots are really biliteral roots lengthened to make a 
triliteral root?

And another thing, I now think that it is very likely that Hebrew originally 
had every letter a CV, a consonant followed by a vowel.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vadim Cherny" <vadim_lv AT center-tv.net>
To: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] logograms--an ode to Hebrew
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:22:10 +0200

>
> 
> > But not that they came from any committee or centralised
> > authority, rather that they emerged in the same way as new words emerged
> > today, from idiosyncratic usage
> 
> And why would naturally emerging words
> a. conform to fixed-length roots
> b. have regular patterns in root construction (such as, again, further in
> alphabet is the third radical, lighter is the meaning: not for all roots,
> but beyond coincidence)
> 
> How could the concept of three-letter roots predate the concept of letter?
> 
> > are you not aware that there are quite a number of quadriliteral
> > roots in Hebrew? They are very ancient because many of them e.g. TRGM
> > are shared with Arabic, Aramaic etc.
> 
> Vadim Cherny
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