Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

Your question is, so to say, wrong, Isaac.

The right question is:

Does a given root yield several words (that have different meanings: each
has its own meaning...) by taking some additional letters and/or by using
different vowel patterns?

Put this way, the answer is: YES, it does.
Do you know Spanish, Isaac?

PAN, bread -------> PANadero, baker, bread maker/seller
------------------------> PANecillo, little loaf, roll
and so on.

Regards

Pere Porta

2011/6/3 Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>

> Excuse my insistence, but does doubling the last root consonant turn a path
> into a snail?
>
>  Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
>  On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Pere Porta wrote:
>
>  Root שבלול <------------  שב"ל by means of doubling the last root
> consonant and, of course, taking at the same time the appropriate vowel
> pattern.
>
> Regards
>
> Pere Porta
> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)
>
> 2011/6/3 Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
>
>> Does $BIYL שביל 'path', "yield" $ABLUL שבלול 'snail'?
>>
>> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>>
>>
>> On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:43 AM, Pere Porta wrote:
>>
>> also $BYL=path --> $BLWL=snail.
>>>
>>
>>
>


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Pere Porta