Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ken Penner" <ken.penner AT acadiau.ca>]

 Hi Charles,

Lee's usage is not different. Alef is in the list of letters that can be 
either servile or radical (משה איתן וכלה). In the example I gave, אמלא )ML) 
the first Alef is servile (it is "employed in the process of grammatical 
accidence," in this case the first person singular verbal prefix), the second 
Alef in the example is radical (it is part of the tri-literal root מלא). Lee 
is a bit unclear when he separates the two groups; to be more clear he could 
have called the second group "exclusively radical" letters:
The servile letters are, however, occasionally radical, though the 
exclusively radical ones are never servile.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Charles Grebe
> Sent: February 7, 2008 3:09 PM
> To: B-Hebrew
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] K)RW with alef as mater lectionis?
> 
> Hi Ken,
> 
> So I assume the usage of the term "radical" in Samuel Lee's 
> grammar (below) is different. I assume he does NOT mean root letters.
> 
> Lee lists a select number of what he calls "servile" letters 
> (משה איתן וכלה) and then says the others are radical, but 
> clearly these so called "servile" letters also function as 
> root letters. Are you familiar with Lee's usage of radical 
> and servile?
> 
> Charles Grebe
> Director of Distance Learning
> Briercrest College and Seminary
> www.briercrest.ca
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ken Penner [mailto:ken.penner AT acadiau.ca]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:21 AM
> > To: Charles Grebe; B-Hebrew
> > Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] K)RW with alef as mater lectionis?
> > 
> > Hi Charles,
> > 
> > "Radical" means "pertaining to the root." 
> > So radical Alef is an Alef that is one of the three 
> consonants of the 
> > Hebrew root. In the word אמלא )ML) "I will fill," the first Alef is 
> > not radical, but the final Alef is.
> > 
> > Ken
> > 
> 
> > > 
> > > I found a discussion of this in A grammar of the Hebrew 
> language By 
> > > Samuel Lee on Google books, but it's still not clear to me
> > what makes
> > > a letter radical.
> > > http://books.google.com/books?id=JCsa-9Z2j3QC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11
> > > &dq=hebrew
> > > +servile+letter&source=web&ots=AOw3Nl-iAj&sig=RKOBvAdyQDCziN-Q
> > W4M9G70xZo
> > > Y#PPA11,M1
> > > 
> > 
> 
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