On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 06:13:57PM -0700, Dave Washburn wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:26 PM, K Randolph <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ken: > > > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Ken Penner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Do the following help? > >> > >> Joüon §59g: "In the light of Ugr. tštḥwy “she prostrates herself,” what > >> used to be considered hitpa̧ʿlẹl, represented almost entirely by the > >> frequent הִשְׁתַּחֲוָה to worship, to prostrate oneself, is most likely a > >> Hištafʿel of √ חוי." > >> > > > > From where does he get this? > > > >> > >> > What you're seeing, both there and in the Jouon quote, is a grammarian > trying desperately to figure out what's going on with this unique word. It > used to be taught that it was a hitpa`el of $XH with metathesis of the shin > and the tau, and no clue why the waw. But as Ken already mentioned, > Ugaritic has shown us that the root is actually XWH and the stem is a > hi$tap`el. Once upon a time we had a grid of stems with a hole in the > middle: > > Basic Emphatic Causative > > Active qal pi`el hip`il > > Passive nip`al pu`al hop`al > > Reflexive nip`al ? hitpa`el
This is wrong: a) nipʿal is not a passive stem originally, b) hitpaʿel is not (and never was) a causative stem. > Thanks to Ugaritic, we now know what goes where the question mark is. And > yes, it only survives in this one word in that language, too. That's an > accident of preservation, but I don't really think anybody can deny that > the word exists. Petr Tomasek _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
