>What is, Nir, your trouble or confusion with verb "QM"? (please, write QM and not KM because if you write K most of us will think of the Hebrew letter khaf and not of the Hebrew letter qof).
Heartly, Pere Porta (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) i interpret many of the three-letter roots as "fillings" of older two-letter roots which represent a more primitive grammar. we may think of QYM as a "filling" of the older "QM", in the same sense that the english "stands" is in some contexts close to "is". QAM has only 3 binyanim (qam, heqim, huqam), QYM also has qiyem, quyam, hitkayem, but "to be" has no zman pa'al. (also we have NQM, which is another plausible "filling" (arabic: QUM) with (i think) only 3 binyanim: naqam, niqam, hitnaqem.) well, in the present tense we have all 3 forms in zman pa'al, QAM, NOQEM, QAYAM. so, are QM and QYM one verb or two? nir cohen _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
