Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] RE Jussive of QWM - QUM or QOM?
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 22:38:53 +0000
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:54 PM, David Steinberg wrote:
> Joulon_Murakoa p. 213 states
That's Jouon and Muraoka...
>
> "The active future is *YAQU:M ... The Jussive originally had the short u
> (reduced state), eg. *YAQUM which usually became YAQOM..."
I am not sure what the full quote here is, but I think perhaps the discussion
is about general medial-waw verbs and not specifically qwm, even if qwm
is used as the paradigm and is one of those that did not become "yaqom".