A new system for root-identification was introduced in article "CVC Roots in Hebrew":http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001641 The Rule #1 is the Lexical Gemination Rule: Unmotivated geminination of a consonant in nouns suggests the geminated constant is a root-final. Gemination of root-final is a common phonological process, that happen in various languages, including English: brimming, clubbing, cutting, fitting, getting,grabbing, hopping,letting, lobbing, logging, rubbing, setting, slamming, stabbing, swimming,spitting, splitting, travelling, vetting, ... For the triplet (K,T,V), there is a word-form "K.TuB.Bot", According to the rule #1, the existence of a noun where the theird radical is geminated suggest that the root in this case if is TV
Sasson MargaliotJerusalem
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