Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Pere:

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> My dear Karl,
>
> ask, please, ten (learned) people about this issue and put them down in two
> groups according the answer they gave:
>
> Group one: those who claim that DKYT is a verbal form of DK', crush, with
> the meaning "you crushed".
> Group two: those who claim that DKYT is an adjective.
>
> And then.... compare the results.
>
> Here is my prediction:
>
> You will get a result 1 in group one and a result 9 in group two.
>

Oh, so you agree that nine out of ten would agree that it is an adjective?
Or is that a typo on your part?         ;-)

The correctness of the proposition is not a voting issue.

That nouns, adverbs and adjectives are derived from verbs by adding a -YT
suffix leaves open the possibility that in this case, this is an example of
such a derivation. Therefore the lack of an )$R in this phrase is not an
anomaly, but expected because of what words are used. That’s how I see it.

>
> Kind regards
>
> Pere Porta
> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
>
> Karl W. Randolph.