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On Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:06 PM, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
Is the CaCi:C adjective pattern pretty regular for triconsonantal roots?
Well, there are some other patterns, but CaCi:C is the most popular, IMHO. The next by popularity would be CaCa:C. But the work *only* with descriptive/qualitative adjectives. Relative adjectives (usu. corresponding to nouns in attributive position in English) seem to be universally formed by means of -yy- suffix in the whole Afro-Asiatic family. They are called "nisbah" adjectives. E.g. {3arabu} "an Arab" > {3arabiyyu} "Arabic".
but it seems to me that Real Egyptian actually formed feminine plurals by first adding the -w- marker for the plural and _then_ the -t feminine marker, which would give me a f.nom.pl. like .. dashrawatu, instead. Not sure how to go here.
Yep, {daSrawatu} would be closer to the original AEgyptian form.
Well, mostly because I've never really gotten along with the dual case.
Dual *number*, FYI. Don't worry about it. Modern Hebrew has almost lost it, keeping it alive only in natural pairs, e.g. {3ayin} "an eye" > {3einayim} "a pair of eyes".
Wishing success,-- Yitzik