Plural Based Duals
While most dual forms in the Hebrew Bible are built upon the singular base, there are several examples where the plural form is the base of the dual noun. The inserted -a- vowel, a characteristic of plurals in North West Semitic, appears in these words, indicating that it is the plural base upon whi...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Journal of Semitic studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 54, Issue: 2, Pages: 383-388 |
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| Summary: | While most dual forms in the Hebrew Bible are built upon the singular base, there are several examples where the plural form is the base of the dual noun. The inserted -a- vowel, a characteristic of plurals in North West Semitic, appears in these words, indicating that it is the plural base upon which the dual ending is added. These forms are likely caused by an erroneous assumption about the word delet ‘door’, which constitutes the most examples of this phenomenon. The word delet was assumed to be a III-he noun, not a qvtl noun. On analogy with other III-he nouns that present a medial -a- vowel in their dual forms, delet assimilated to this same pattern. Select qvtl nouns with a liquid consonant in the middle position followed the pattern of delet and thus created these inconsistencies. The pattern was then applied to two other non-qvtl nouns resulting in further inconsistencies. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-8556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Semitic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jss/fgp004 |