Verse:Tdūrzů/Knench/Ancient: Difference between revisions
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The definite article was ''ʔaC-'' (from Biblical Hebrew ''*haC-''). It caused gemination of the following consonant; if the following consonant was a guttural and thus could not geminate, it was lengthened to ''ʔā-''. | The definite article was ''ʔaC-'' (from Biblical Hebrew ''*haC-''). It caused gemination of the following consonant; if the following consonant was a guttural and thus could not geminate, it was lengthened to ''ʔā-''. | ||
The Biblical feminine singular ending ''*-ā́'' became unstressed ''-a'', and the stress in feminine singular nouns in ''-a'' shifted to penultimate (by analogy with masculine singular adjectives and 3fs perfect verbs). Other possible feminine endings are ''-t'' or ''-δ''. The feminine plural | The Biblical feminine singular ending ''*-ā́'' became unstressed ''-a'', and the stress in feminine singular nouns in ''-a'' shifted to penultimate (by analogy with masculine singular adjectives and 3fs perfect verbs). Other possible feminine endings are ''-t'' or ''-δ''. Eventually stress shifted away from gender/number suffixes across the board: The regular masculine and feminine plural endings were unstressed ''-im'' and unstressed ''-oδ'', from Biblical Hebrew ''*-ī́m'' and ''*-ṓt''. | ||
Sometimes ''-a'' is found where Standard Jewish Hebrew has ''-t'', and vice versa. | |||
The construct state was not entirely predictable but not as "hard" as Tiberian Hebrew. Feminine singular nouns in ''-a'' had a construct state in ''-aδ''. | The construct state was not entirely predictable but not as "hard" as Tiberian Hebrew. Feminine singular nouns in ''-a'' had a construct state in ''-aδ''. | ||
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! indef. | ! indef. | ||
| ''sus | | ''sus'' <br/> /sus/ | ||
| '' | | ''susa'' <br/> /ˈsusa/ | ||
| '' | | ''susim'' <br/> /ˈsusim/ | ||
| '' | | ''susoδ'' <br/> /ˈsusoð/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
! def. | ! def. | ||
| '' | | ''ʔas-sus'' <br/> /ʔassus/ | ||
| '' | | ''ʔas-susa'' <br/> /ʔasˈsusa/ | ||
| '' | | ''ʔas-susim'' <br/> /ʔasˈsusim/ | ||
| '' | | ''ʔas-susoδ'' <br/> /ʔasˈsusoð/ | ||
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