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  • From: Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Piel Participles of ayin-waw-yod
  • Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:06:28 -0700 (PDT)


Hard to understand why you keep referring to what
you hear or do not hear in the modern language.

The subject of this list is biblical Hebrew,
not the modern language.

Uri Hurwitz Great Neck, NY




I have never heard it being "lengthened" in Hebrew.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Oct 30, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Randall Buth wrote:

> When compared to other Semitic languages it is called a D-stem,
> meaning that the second root
> letter is lengthened, popularly called 'doubled'.










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