Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Composed of or containing two consonants.
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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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