If or accented and preceded by a vowel be fol

lowed by either S or

current letters disappears.

quiescent, the first of the con

If the preceding vowel be

fethah, it is retained, if it be not fethah it is made to coincide with the accent of the lost letter.

Ex.

for اغزى ; تغزوين for تغرين رميوا for رموا .

غازوون for غازون و أغزوى

The finality of the vowels, and is not considered as affected by the affix of the termination 8, nor by that

for غزاه ومرمية for مرماة و عدووة for عدوة .Ex

-In the last example 1 is fre رميه for رميه وغزوه

The finality of is usually regarded as affected by the affixed possessive pronouns or the termination, but the rule is not absolute in these cases. Thus we

may write either, treating the las medial, or 80, treating it as final.

PARTS OF SPEECH.

The Arabs divide the parts of speech into three:

الثلاثي) Primitive Verbs are divided into Triliteral

الرباعي)

and Quadriliteral

The inflection admits a distinction of Gender.

The Triliteral Verb contains three Radicals in the 3rd Singular Masculine of the Past Tense Active, which is considered the Root.

If in the Root there be no duplication of letter, nor any of the weak letters,

,or , the Verb is Regular و

on the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd مهموز Hamzated .2

برأَ أخذ

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Radical respectively, as i. ; ii. Jw; iii.

* The Arab Grammarians use the word

to express the changes produced by conjugation and inflection, and its three let

to designate the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd radicals;

thus a verb hamzated on the 1st Radical is called

مهموز باللام on the 3rd مهموز بالعين on the and

We may observe that the true second radical of Concave Verbs is not but, or, and that in the Conjugation of a and b these reappear respectively.

. و is

In ß and γ of Defective Verbs the true third radical

Of the primitive Triliteral Verb there are six Conju

gations () distinguished by the change or persist

ence of the vowel of the second radical. These variations are shewn by the Arab Grammarians on the word.

By other Grammarians the order of the 1st and 2nd Conjugations is changed.

Of these Conjugations it may be remarked, that the 1st and 2nd include by far the largest number of Verbs. The 3rd is restricted to such as have a guttural for the 2nd or 3rd radical.

All the Conjugations except the 6th contain both

Transitive

and Intransitive (متعدی

(لازم)

Verbs. The

4th and 5th are more commonly Intransitive, and the 6th is exclusively so.

The accompanying Paradigm will shew under what Conjugations the Regular and Irregular Triliteral Verbs range themselves.