Re: Semitic root word list?

JS Bangs skrev:
 > Hello, everyone. I've been lurking for a while, but I'm
 > surfacing because I want to know if anyone knows of a good
 > online list of Arabic, Hebrew, or other Semitic roots. I'm
 > preparing Anmur for participation in the current
 > translation relay, and since it has a Semitic-like
 > morphology, I was hoping to use a list of roots from a
 > Semitic language to jump-start the vocabulary. Mostly I'm
 > hoping on using the *meanings*, since I'm giong to
 > randomly generate root forms according to Anmurian rules
 > to match the meanings.
 >
 > So far I haven't found anything really usable. The best
 > list I've found for Arabic is at
 > http://www.studyquran.co.uk/PRLonline.htm, but its format
 > is not easily altered for input to a Perl script, and
 > many of the roots listed don't have meanings given, just
 > a list of references from the Koran. Anybody have any
 > better ideas?
 >

You might want to ask at
<westasianconlangs@...>.
Mail me offlist if you want me to do it for you.
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