Semitic root word list?
| From: | JS Bangs <jaspax@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 8, 2007, 4:17 |
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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?
--
JS Bangs
jaspax@gmail.com
http://jaspax.com
"amazing grace
it sounds like razors in my ears
that bell's been ringing now for years
someday i'll give it all away
that's how you sing amazing grace."
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