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Before and after Babel
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 6/25/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...created the most diabolical structure in all linguistics, the triliteral verb-root of the Semitic languages. In languages such as...Leyden but a really cool guy, who uses as template for the triliteral root of the Semitic verb the radicals s-n-g, meaning...
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On Leviticus: "Listen your way in with your mouth": A reading of Leviticus
Magazine article from: Judaism; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...languages. What turns out to be another obstacle for translation is the particular structure of Hebrew which, with its system of triliteral roots, makes the etymological nucleus of both verbs and nouns, however conjugated and declined, constantly transparent...
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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2001. (Bureau Books).
Magazine article from: NBER Reporter; 3/22/2002; 503 words
; ...62.00 for the clothbound and $32.00 for the paperback edition. It may be ordered directly from the MIT Press, c/o Triliteral, 100 Maple Ridge Drive, Cumberland, RI 02864; or by phone, 401-658-4226 or 1-800-405-1619; or by email at...
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A scholar's dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic. (Michael Sokoloff)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...of words in the scholarly literature are impressively extensive. Semitic dictionaries have traditionally been arranged by triliteral root. On the other hand, the modem Akkadian lexica (CAD, AHw) as well as dictionaries of Modem Hebrew and even some classical...
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Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...of words in the scholarly literature are impressively extensive. Semitic dictionaries have traditionally been arranged by triliteral root. On the other hand, the modem Akkadian lexica (CAD, AHw) as well as dictionaries of Modem Hebrew and even some classical...
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These are a few of my favorite words
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 12/28/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...is classically based on roots of three, four or two letters. (I put three first not to confuse the counting but because triliteral roots are the commonest.) The usual observation that roots have meanings is almost right. More accurately, the roots contribute...
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Study in iconography provides glimpse of Kozaks' relations with God and the tsar: "Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography," by Serhii Plokhy
Newspaper article from: Ukrainian Weekly, The; 11/10/2002; 337 words
; ...Harvard University Press, Customer Service Department, 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; e-mail, customer.care@triliteral.org; toll-free fax, 1-800-406-9145; toll-free telephone, 1-800-405-1619. Article copyright The Ukrainian...
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More building blocks
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 2/13/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...principle lots of ways of creating the four root letters that pi'el requires. In classical Hebrew, the middle root letter of a triliteral root is doubled to go from three to four. That's why we get diber (from d.b.r, then d.b.b.r, then dbber...
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Double or nothing
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 8/8/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...shesh (a poetic form of shayish, "marble"), and sas ("he rejoiced"). So that's 15 biliteral words. To get the triliteral words, we need to add a bit a grammar, because while Arabic has a lovely word yayaya ("he wrote the letter ya [yud...
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Arabism and Islamism in Sayyid Qutb's Thought on Nationalism
Magazine article from: The Muslim World; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...concepts? One should note that the word fitrah is a Qur'anic term derived from the Arabic root ftr, from which the strong triliteral verb perfect fatara and the nomen agantis/aiz'rare derived. The root action// rmeans to create, originate, and cleave...
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