Re: Arabic affixation

On Tuesday, February 10, 2004, at 10:05  AM, Adam Walker wrote:
> Steg, how does the pi'eil conjugation work.  I
> searched and saerched for it online last night and
> couldn't find anything in transliteration.  (My puter
> can't read Hebrew font  at present.  It's one of
> several broken fonts on this machine.)  I found hi'fil
> and see that in addition to doubling the consonant it
> prefixes hi-.  That's the sort of thing borrowed
> before, but hi- is not much fun since all H's drop in
> the initial stages of C-a.  I guess I *could* have a
> prefix i- but I like CV prefixes better. (How silly is
> that?)
> Adam
Pi`eil:

perfect/past:

root in form CiC²CaC
(|C²| signifies gemination of the consonant)

affixes / full forms where appropriate:
1s -ti:
2sm -ta:
2sf -t
3sm CiC²e:C
3sf CiC²@Ca:
1p -nu:
2pm -tem
2pf -ten
3p CiC²@Cu:

participle:

ms m@CaC²e:C
fs m@CaC²eCet
mp m@CaC²@Ci:m
fp m@CaC²@Co:t

imperfect/future:
root in form CaC²e:C
1s ?a.-   (a. = ultrashort /a/, /a/-colored /@/)
2sm t@-
2sf t@CaC²@Ci:
3sm y@-
3sf t@-
1p n@-
2pm t@CaC²@Cu:
2pf t@CaC²e:Cna:
3pm y@CaC²@Cu:
3pf t@CaC²e:Cna:

imperative:
2sm CaC²e:C
2sf CaC²@Ci:
2pm CaC²@Cu:
2pf CaC²e:Cna:

infinitive "to" form:
l@CaC²e:C


-Stephen (Steg)
  "no time"