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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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Loan Verbs in Maltese: A Descriptive and Comparative Study.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...quadriliteral verbs of Arabic origin and theme II of the triliterals and their nominal derivatives (see pp. 91ff.); thus...its colloquial realizations. Thus themes V-VIII of the triliterals and II of the quadriliterals, which do duty both as reflexives...
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How Semitic Was John? Rethinking the Hellenistic Background to John 1:1
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...why? Since the latter half of the tenth century B.C.E., scholars have recognized that Hebrew words are composed of triliteral roots-that is to say, every Hebrew word has a three-letter, consonantal root that is the "backbone" of its very essence...
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Traveling the ways of horus: Studying the links between Egypt and the Levant
Magazine article from: Near Eastern Archaeology; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...ordinary hieroglyphic writing, vowels are not indicated and individual signs are of three types: uniliteral, biliteral, and triliteral signs indicating consonants, ideograms representing entire words, and determinatives marking the classification of the word...
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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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Living Waters: Scandinavian Orientalistic Studies Presented to Professor Dr. Frede Lokkegaard on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday, January 27th 1990.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...semantik Perspectivrids"; Finn Thiesen, "Participles and Verbal Nouns Formed from the Derived Forms of the Arabic Strong Triliteral Verb and their Treatment in Urdu"; Ulla Lange Thomsen, "Tadschikistans Latifa"; and Judith Winther, "The Hebrew Revolution...
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"Listen your way in with your mouth": A Reading of Leviticus.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 3/22/1999; ; 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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The Qur'an's Self-Image: Writing and Authority in Islam's Scripture
Newspaper article from: Domes; 1/31/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...their understanding of the idea of scripture in Islam. He concentrates on the word kitab and the many derivatives of its triliteral root k-t-b as used in the Qur'an. He finds that kitab cannot be simply translated as book and that the root, k-t...
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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 19.(Bureau Books)
Magazine article from: NBER Reporter; 9/22/2005; 654 words
; ...Economics and the Associate Head of the Economics Department at MIT. The following volume may be ordered from MIT Press, c/o Triliteral, 100 Maple Ridge Drive, Cumberland, RI 02864 Order by phone: TOLL FREE in the US and Canada: 1-800-405-1619 (9...
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Pakistans importance understood during Presidents US, UK visits: Sumsam Bukhari.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International; 5/21/2009; 592 words
; ...United States and United Kingdom, Pakistans points of view, cooperation and importance have been understood in bilateral and triliteral meetings. Terming the visits to these countries as results oriented and highly successful, he said the President held meetings...
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