Re: OT: Another analytic question

"KTB" is actually the Arabic root for "to write." "Book" is "kitaab," with a
long second vowel; its plural is "kutub."
Krista
>Also of interest: kitabu, book, is an Arabic loan word from "ktb"(?),
>to read.  I am more familiar with the Hebrew triphonetic stem.  There
>is a class of ki- nouns in Swahili which take the plural in vi-:
>kisu, knife; visu, knives.  Kitabu is treated as a ki- class noun
>with the plural vitabu, books!!!!
>
>Charlie
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