On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:02:55AM -0700, Uri Hurwitz wrote: > John, > > Yes, agreed that השתחוה is a biblical form of > Istaf'ala, as is its forerunner in Ugaritic. I am > familiar of the Arabic Af'ala , the equivalent of > the Hebrerw Hif'il, but what is "if'alla" you mention?
It's the IX. stem in Arabic - a rather rare and specialized stem (e.g. used with colours, like اِحْمَرَّ, iḥmarra...) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Petr, the difference between the root שחה and השתחוה is an extension by > gemation of the last letter, which does otherwise occur in, say, the Arabic > if'alla and if'ālla. But alhough you and I are both certain this is a > hištaph'el, that's not how it was understood as in Biblical times. Could you explain, please, how a gemmination of the last letter could lead to an addition of consonantal wav? > John Leake Petr Tomasek _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
