An Assyrian Grammar, for Comparative PurposesTrübner, 1872 - 188 pages |
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... ( Singular , Plural , and Dual ) Origin of the Person - endings Proof of the existence of a Permansive Tense against Dr. Oppert · · Proof of a Present Tense in Assyrian . Traces of Waw Consecutivum Contracted Forms • The Strong Verb in ...
... ( Singular , Plural , and Dual ) Origin of the Person - endings Proof of the existence of a Permansive Tense against Dr. Oppert · · Proof of a Present Tense in Assyrian . Traces of Waw Consecutivum Contracted Forms • The Strong Verb in ...
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... Singular , Plural , and Dual . The Three Case - terminations -u , -i , -a The Mimmation . PAGE 84 85 91 94 95 96 97 98 · • 101 102 102 Dr. Oppert's ascription of an Emphatic State to the Assyrian controverted Derivation of Nouns ...
... Singular , Plural , and Dual . The Three Case - terminations -u , -i , -a The Mimmation . PAGE 84 85 91 94 95 96 97 98 · • 101 102 102 Dr. Oppert's ascription of an Emphatic State to the Assyrian controverted Derivation of Nouns ...
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... singular and plural aorist Kal of verbs in Babylonian , while in Assyrian the first and third persons are identical ( beginning with e ) ; lu is used before substantives as in vulgar Assyrian ; and generally the Babylonian presents us ...
... singular and plural aorist Kal of verbs in Babylonian , while in Assyrian the first and third persons are identical ( beginning with e ) ; lu is used before substantives as in vulgar Assyrian ; and generally the Babylonian presents us ...
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... singular of the Permansive , are archaic . So also is the mimmation and the use of shaphel . Lastly , the vocabulary is extremely large , and it is unfortunate that we have to explain Assyrian from Hebrew and not Hebrew from Assyrian ...
... singular of the Permansive , are archaic . So also is the mimmation and the use of shaphel . Lastly , the vocabulary is extremely large , and it is unfortunate that we have to explain Assyrian from Hebrew and not Hebrew from Assyrian ...
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... singular nouns of multitude . In Himyaritic the Arabic plural actab occurs by the side of the ordinary plural ( e.g. , sheb , " tribe , " plural asháb ) . Broken plurals , common in Æthiopic , have be- come the rule in Arabic . As in ...
... singular nouns of multitude . In Himyaritic the Arabic plural actab occurs by the side of the ordinary plural ( e.g. , sheb , " tribe , " plural asháb ) . Broken plurals , common in Æthiopic , have be- come the rule in Arabic . As in ...
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Accadian accent accusative Achæmenian period adjectives Æthiopic anacu aorist Aphel Arabic Aramaic Aryan Asiatic assimilated Assur-bani-pal Assyr Assyrian attached Babylonian become case-endings character Chinese cima cloth cognate languages compared concave verbs consonant denoted dental dialects DICTIONARY doubled dropped dual Edited enclitic English Ethiopic expressed F. J. FURNIVALL feminine termination genitive grammar guttural Hebrew Himyaritic Hincks IMPERATIVE instance interchange Iphteal Istaphal king letter masculine Ménant mimmation Niphal nomen mutati nomen permanentis nominative noun numerals omitted Oppert original Pael Palel participle passive Permansive person singular Phoenician Precative preceding prefix preposition present primitive pronunciation quadriliteral rare reduplication root Royal Royal Asiatic Society Sanskrit sarru second person second radical Semitic languages Sennacherib sentence sewed Shaphel sibilant side sometimes status constructus subjunctive substantive suffix sunuti syllabaries syllable tablets tense Text third personal pronoun Translated triliteral Turanian ultu vowel vulgar weakened word
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