On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Donald Vance wrote:
> Let me try this again. (Stupid iPhone.) What do you call the qetil pattern
> if not a Gp?
>
You are right. Biblical Aramaic has Gp as in תקילתה in Dan 5:27 or
יהיבו in Ez 5:14. But what I was thinking of was that these forms were
on the decline and Hebrew maintained other internal passives such
as Pual and Hophal which were also on the decline in Aramaic.