From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Resh: To be Guttural or not to be Guttural - that is the Question!
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:49:34 -0500
Dear John,
I don't think that's the answer, as the word KRT is classified as a
Strong Verb.
So we have:
$MR - Strong
KRT - Strong
BRK - 'Ayin Guttural
Perhaps KRT is not viewed as being affected much
by the changes that the resh is capable of
bringing. BRK, however, is greatly affected
because it has a large Piel usage. GKC says that
the guttural verbs are really a variant of the
strong verb, because the modifications required by
the gutturals only affect the vowelization, not
the consonants. The grammar adds that the only
real weakness with guttural verbs is the entire
omission of the strengthening in some of the
middle-guttural verbs. This does happen with BRK,
but surprisingly it does not seem to happen with
KRT. GKC lists a couple of KRT forms as exceptions
to this loss of strengthening of the second
guttural. And there are only a couple of relevant
KRT forms, since it does not have a Piel and only
has these two forms in the Pual. Nor does it have
the Hithpael. So perhaps that explains the
difference in classification of the two verbs.
See GKC #62 and 64e.