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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Resh: To be Guttural or not to be Guttural - that is the Question!
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:49:34 -0500

Dear John,

I don't think that's the answer, as the word KRT is classified as a Strong Verb.

So we have:
$MR - Strong
KRT - Strong
BRK - 'Ayin Guttural

Perhaps KRT is not viewed as being affected much by the changes that the resh is capable of bringing. BRK, however, is greatly affected because it has a large Piel usage. GKC says that the guttural verbs are really a variant of the strong verb, because the modifications required by the gutturals only affect the vowelization, not the consonants. The grammar adds that the only real weakness with guttural verbs is the entire omission of the strengthening in some of the middle-guttural verbs. This does happen with BRK, but surprisingly it does not seem to happen with KRT. GKC lists a couple of KRT forms as exceptions to this loss of strengthening of the second guttural. And there are only a couple of relevant KRT forms, since it does not have a Piel and only has these two forms in the Pual. Nor does it have the Hithpael. So perhaps that explains the difference in classification of the two verbs.
See GKC #62 and 64e.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard




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