Re: questions about Arabic

Christophe Grandsire wrote:


> And is the root P`L cognate with F`L (I would say yes at first glance)
> meaning "to do" in Arabic?
Yes.  In fact, the explanatory schema, as well as the dummy word used
in making form names, was borrowed by Hebrew grammarians from Arabic
grammarians, probably during the Middle Ages.

Of course it *works* in Hebrew because H. and A. are both South
Central Semitic languages....

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