Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Petr Tomasek <tomasek AT etf.cuni.cz>]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:54:22AM +0200, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Randall Buth wrote:
> 
> > This reminds me of seeing a Hebrew newspaper in the summer of '74 with
> > a headline Nixon hitpuTTar "Nixon resigned [under force]".
> > It is a modern neologism, though contrary to mishnaic nitpa`el it has not
> > created a whole new set of hitpu``al verb forms.
> 
> hitputtar
> hitnuddav
> hit'ubbad
> hitguyyas
> hitmunnah
> 

The ancient Hebrew variant would be perhaps rather: hutpaʿʿel.
See: Deut 24:4 הֻטַּמָּאָה.

P.T.

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