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- noun linguistics The addition of an -m suffix to the vocalic
case markers (/a/, /i/ and /u/) inSemitic languages, especiallyAkkadian .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I find it striking that seven somehow retained its mimation while 3 and 6 didn't.
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Phoenix: "I find it striking that seven somehow retained its mimation while 3 and 6 didn't."
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PIE *septm̥ is grammatically unanalysable in PIE and retains fossilization of Proto-Semitic morphology i.e. the root *sab`-, the feminine *-t- and mimation leading any rational person to the simplest conclusion that Semitic contacts in Pre-IE must have existed.
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The linguist will be interested in an observation by Skinner to the effect that "the endings -- an and -- on in this list point to a primitive nunation, as contrasted with sporadic cases of mimation in the Edomite names" (cf.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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