Re: Emegali Verb Review

Steg Belsky wrote:
>On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:02:04 -0600 "Anthony M. Miles"
><theophilus88@...> writes:
> > l-g-l
> > Qal (active): ilagal ?rule?
> > Nip?al (passive): illagal ?be ruled, serve?
> > Hip?il (causative): uSalgal ?cause to rule, anoint?
> > Hitpa?el (intransitive/denominative): ?be king?
> > Pi?el (pluralize/intensive): ?rule for a long time?
>-
>
>Are these the Emegali names for the paradigms?  I can't remember... is
>Emegali a Semitic conlang with a 'grand master plan', or is it just
>supposed to be very Semitic-like?  I can't remember hearing a Semitic
>root LGL 'rule' before (it sounds to me more like a variant of Hebrew GLL
>'roll'), but it looks like the English word "legal".
Possibly entirely irrelevant, but the Sumerian word for "king" is _lugal_.


Andreas

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