بنية الجذر داخل المعجم العربي

Abstract EN

In Arabic and other Semitic languages ; The linguistic data show that biconsonantal roots are not a hypothesis relating to a prehistoric period but constitute an historical reality attested by a group of nouns and by a series of verbal forms; this is further supported by the semantic concurrence of many roots in two of their radicals.

There is, however, a sufficient reason for maintaining, as some have done, that the entire Semitic stock of roots was entirely biconsonantal.

It is a more likely supposition that originally there existed roots with either two or three consonants and that at a certain stage in the development of the Semitic languages the triconsonantal system prevailed extending by analogy and thus bringing into line biconsonantal roots through the adoption of a third radical.