Sorry for the mess up before. That's what happens when you join a
discussion from memory without checking the grammar first.
However, while you are quite right that a regular verb would be
bisyllabic I'm sure you are all aware that regular roots are few
and far between. And that the root hwh is anything but regular.
Plus the general conception that this is a causative form. To the
best of my knowledge pe guttural hiphils and hophals are trisyllabic.
The evidence from the ancient names of a second long vowel o/u is
insurmountable.
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