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Topic: Triconsonantal root


  
  Arab - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Jerome understood the term as the name of a people of a town which he described as being in the confines of the Arabians.
In Hebrew, the word `arav' has the same triconsonantal root as the root meaning "west" (ma`arav) "setting sun" or "evening" (ma`ariv, `erev).
The Assyrian forms may plausibly be borrowings from Aramaic or Canaanite of either root, referring to land lying to the west in the latter case; the latter possibility is perhaps strengthened by the later Greek use of the term Saracen, with the parallel meaning in Arabic of "Easterners" (sharqiyyûn.)
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 Hebrew language
Grammatically, Hebrew is typical of the Semitic tongues in that so many words have a triconsonantal root consisting of three consonants separated by vowels.
Changes in, or omissions of, the vowels alter the meaning of a root.
Prefixes and suffixes are also added to roots to modify the meaning.
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 Everything about Ethiopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This is mitigated somewhat because, like many Semitic languages, Amharic uses triconsonantal roots in its verb morphology.
Many Rastafarians learn Amharic as a second language because their religion believes it is the original and a sacred language.
Various roots reggae musicians including Lincoln Thompson and Misty-in-Roots have written songs in Amharic, thus bringing the sound of this relatively unknown language to a wider audience.
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