Re: confession: roots

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Steg Belsky wrote:

> On Mon, 7 May 2001 14:32:49 EDT David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>
> writes:
> > In a message dated 5/7/01 10:14:05 AM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
> >
> > << Don't some Arabic inflection patterns work that way? >>
> >
> >     Yep.  [maktaba]="office", from "k-t-b", "writing".  And there's
> > no word
> > [ktab].
> >
> Really?  In Hebrew, /ktab/ [k@tav] means "script" or "text".
>
In Arabic, /al-kitaab/ means a textbook or somesuch.

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