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Kay wrote: > I 've come across a few pages on rules of accent in Arabic [skip] > --- Accent rules in Arabic from the Wright's book (summery)---- That's the most detailed explanation I ever met. Thank you very much. > In other cases, accent is put as farest as the head of a word. > e.g. /kA-ta-ba-taa/, /mAs-'a-la-tun/, /mAs-'a-la-tu-haa/, > /Qa-Sa-ba-tu-hu-maa/ So it must be _"wa:si3atun_, as I expected. So I'll try making my "Newgaritic" forms assuming this pattern valid for Natural Ugaritic: *?a:XiDatu 'holding (f.sn)' > ["?aXeZe]. That will preserve uniformity with m.sn form ["?aXeZ] < *?a:XiDu. Plurals are eazier, having "heavy" (long) endings: [?aX"Zum] < *?a:XiDu:ma [?aX"Zat] < *?a:XiDa:tu -- Yitzik