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Re: [westasianconlangs] Loanverbs from Semitic

On Sunday, November 04, 2007 9:06 AM, "eamoniski" <eamoniski@hidden.email>
wrote:


> Hello everyone! I have a basic question: if constructing a language
> that has a fairly-IE-typical verb grammar (think Balkan Indo-European,
> actually), and borrowing a substantial number of verbs from a Semitic
> language (specifically Hebrew, also some Aramaic), what form of the
> verb would most likely be the borrowed form?

I would rather expect a verbal noun (of qa:to:l type) or a participle
(qo:te:l). At least those are the forms borrowed from Arabic to Farsi
(masdars and participles). Farsi has lots of Arabic loans that seem to fit
perfectly into the language system.

Isaac