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  • From: Sasson Margaliot <sasson AT live.com>
  • To: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Five Rules for root-identification
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:31:25 +0300

A new system for root-identification was introduced in article "CVC Roots in Hebrew":

The Rule #1 is the Lexical Gemination Rule:

Unmotivated geminination of a consonant in nouns suggests the geminated constant is a root-final.

Gemination of root-final is a common phonological process, that happen in various languages, including English:

brimming, clubbing, cutting,  fitting,  getting,
grabbing, hopping,letting, lobbing, logging, 
rubbing, setting, slamming, stabbing, swimming,
spitting, splitting, travelling, vetting, ...

For the triplet (K,T,V), there is a word-form "K.TuB.Bot",

According to the rule #1, the existence of a noun where the theird radical is geminated 
suggest that the root in this case if is TV  


Sasson Margaliot
Jerusalem



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