“An” Assyrian Grammar for Comparative PurposesTrübner, 1872 - 188 pages |
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... vowel take its place , the two vowels coalescing in a long syllable . the syllabary the reader is referred to Ménant's " Grammaire Assyrienne , " pp . 11-36 , or his " Syllabaire Assyrienne , " 1 or to Norris's " Assyrian Dictionary ...
... vowel take its place , the two vowels coalescing in a long syllable . the syllabary the reader is referred to Ménant's " Grammaire Assyrienne , " pp . 11-36 , or his " Syllabaire Assyrienne , " 1 or to Norris's " Assyrian Dictionary ...
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... long vowel ( 1 ) . Thus ta - ' a - ru ( , " to return , become " ) and khar - sa - a - nu , kharsānu , " forests , " have both the same character . The same holds good of i and u . A , as the weaker letter , is lost after or before u ...
... long vowel ( 1 ) . Thus ta - ' a - ru ( , " to return , become " ) and khar - sa - a - nu , kharsānu , " forests , " have both the same character . The same holds good of i and u . A , as the weaker letter , is lost after or before u ...
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... long vowel ( tum , tuv , tū ) . The con- junction after a verb which ends in a vowel is represented by a character which usually stands for ma , but here is va . Hence , after the mimmation , it is impossible to say whether ma or va is ...
... long vowel ( tum , tuv , tū ) . The con- junction after a verb which ends in a vowel is represented by a character which usually stands for ma , but here is va . Hence , after the mimmation , it is impossible to say whether ma or va is ...
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... long vowel so even utut for utuhut .. 1. As in all ancient Semitic alphabets , ' a was a consonant , a soft breathing , namely , followed by the vowel a . This will explain how it is that ai is represented by ' a + ' a . The second ...
... long vowel so even utut for utuhut .. 1. As in all ancient Semitic alphabets , ' a was a consonant , a soft breathing , namely , followed by the vowel a . This will explain how it is that ai is represented by ' a + ' a . The second ...
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... long vowel or is a closed syllable . The accent is often indicated by the incorrect insertion of a long vowel or a double letter . Besides accent , Assyrian ob- served the laws of quantity . A long vowel was according to rule expressed ...
... long vowel or is a closed syllable . The accent is often indicated by the incorrect insertion of a long vowel or a double letter . Besides accent , Assyrian ob- served the laws of quantity . A long vowel was according to rule expressed ...
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Accadian accent accusative Achæmenian period adjectives anacu aorist Aphel Arabic Arabic and Æthiopic Aramaic Aryan assimilated Assur-bani-pal Assyr attached Babylonian becomes case-endings case-terminations character cima cognate languages common compared concave verbs consonant contracted cuneiform denoted dental dropped dual ebusu enclitic Ethiopic expressed frequently genitive guttural Hebrew Himyaritic Hincks IMPERATIVE Inscr instance interchange Iphteal Istaphal Journ Khammurabi king later inscriptions long vowel Mahri masculine Ménant mimmation Niphal nomen mutati nomen permanentis nominative non-Semitic noun Oppert original Pael Palel Paris PARTICIPLE passive Permansive person singular personal pronoun Phoenician phonetic PRECATIVE prefix preposition present primitive pronunciation quadriliteral rare reduplication root sarru second person second radical secondary conjugations Semitic languages Semitic tongues Sennacherib sentence Shaphel sibilant side sometimes status constructus subjunctive substantive sunuti syllabary syllable tablets tenses third personal pronoun tion triliteral Turanian ullu ultu usual vowel weakened word yati