Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Sasson Margaliot <sasson AT live.com>]

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

http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001641

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