> Just wondering: obviously, as a conjugation base, anything would be
> preferable to Qal
> or Pa'al, but why did y'all choose Qof-Tet-Lamed as opposed to another
> shlemim root.
> Is it a tip of the hat to ol' Qal?
From what I understand, Q+L is one of those verbs that my
classical Greek teacher called "disgustingly regular," which is to
say that all its forms are so "normal" that it is a great base for
demonstrating the behavior, pointing etc. of the various stems,
tenses, moods and everything else. A friend of mine found it
curious that languages such as Hebrew and Koine Greek have as
their "most regular" paradigm verbs words that mean "kill" (Hebrew)
and "destroy" (Greek)!