Your question is, so to say, wrong, Isaac. The right question is:
Does a given root yield several words (that have different meanings: each has its own meaning...) by taking some additional letters and/or by using different vowel patterns? Put this way, the answer is: YES, it does. Do you know Spanish, Isaac? PAN, bread -------> PANadero, baker, bread maker/seller ------------------------> PANecillo, little loaf, roll and so on. Regards Pere Porta 2011/6/3 Isaac Fried <[email protected]> > Excuse my insistence, but does doubling the last root consonant turn a path > into a snail? > > Isaac Fried, Boston University > > On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Pere Porta wrote: > > Root שבלול <------------ שב"ל by means of doubling the last root > consonant and, of course, taking at the same time the appropriate vowel > pattern. > > Regards > > Pere Porta > (Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain) > > 2011/6/3 Isaac Fried <[email protected]> > >> Does $BIYL שביל 'path', "yield" $ABLUL שבלול 'snail'? >> >> Isaac Fried, Boston University >> >> >> On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:43 AM, Pere Porta wrote: >> >> also $BYL=path --> $BLWL=snail. >>> >> >> > -- Pere Porta _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
