Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Composed of or containing three consonants.
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- adjective Involving
three consonants .
Etymologies
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The triconsonantal shape of this root and its irregular outcome/b/in place of expected Ruvu loss of * b entirely in that context certifies to its being a loanword in Swahili and across a large region of the interior, although it remains to future research to determine its source. 105
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It was Saul Levin's Semitic and Indo-European2 where it hooked me with these lines: "Another root, apparently triconsonantal in Semitic but biconsonantal in IE, involves a metathesis of the first and second consonants:" bolded text my ownSay what?
Pre-IE Syncope and possibly expanding the Metathesis rule 2008
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It was Saul Levin's Semitic and Indo-European2 where it hooked me with these lines: "Another root, apparently triconsonantal in Semitic but biconsonantal in IE, involves a metathesis of the first and second consonants:" bolded text my ownSay what?
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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Because the triconsonantal root of Islam, slm, carries the connotations of surrender, some academics and polemicists argue that slm implies the surrender of a defeated enemy, implying forceful conversion
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Because the triconsonantal root of Islam, slm, carries the connotations of surrender, some academics and polemicists argue that slm implies the surrender of a defeated enemy, implying forceful conversion.
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Because the triconsonantal root of Islam, slm, carries the connotations of surrender, some academics and polemicists argue that slm implies the surrender of a defeated enemy, implying forceful conversion.
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Because the triconsonantal root of Islam, slm, carries the connotations of surrender, some academics and polemicists argue that slm implies the surrender of a defeated enemy, implying forceful conversion
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I think shafafa is from Arabic, i.e., a Semitic triconsonantal root (there’s an Israeli place name “Beit Shafafa”), naturalized into some African language (the way Swahili does a lot of).
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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I think shafafa is from Arabic, i.e., a Semitic triconsonantal root (there’s an Israeli place name “Beit Shafafa”), naturalized into some African language (the way Swahili does a lot of).
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
qroqqa commented on the word triconsonantal
having three consonants: usually referring to those triples that indicate the semantic root of most Semitic words, e.g. Arabic k-t-b "write", q-r-' "read", d-r-s "study", sh-r-b "drink".
July 31, 2008