| From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 17, 2002, 10:27 |
From: "Tim May" <butsuri@...>> > In Arabic, Proto-Semitic bilaterals are often made into trilaterals by > > doubling the second consonant or prefixing a glottal stop.> Just a question on terminology; isn't it "triliteral" - "three > letters" rather than "trilateral" - "three sides"?I wondered that, it should be "triliteral". I've seen "trilateral" used so many times though so I think it's a de facto standard. ~Danny~