CHAPTER II
THE VERB
§ 38. General View.
(a) Verbal stems proper (primitive verbs), which exhibit the stem without any addition, e. g.
This does not exclude the possibility that, for nouns, from which denominative verbs are derived, the corresponding (original) verbal stem may still be found either in Hebrew or in the dialects. The meaning, however, is sufficient to show that the denominatives have come from the noun, not from the verbal stem, e. g. d
hn"bel. a brick (verbal stem!bl to be white), denomin.!b;l' to make bricks;gD' a fish (verbal stemhg"D' to be prolific), denomin.gWD to fish;@r;x' to winter (from@r, xoñ autumn, winter, stem@r;x' to pluck);#Wq to pass the summer (from#yIq;ñ summer, stem#yqi to be hot).
On 'Semitic verbs derived from particles' see P. Haupt in the Amer. Journ. of Sem. Lang., xxii (1906), 257 ff.
Footnotes:
1[1] Cf. W. J.Gerber, Die hebr. Verba denom., insbes. im theol. Sprachgebr. des A.T., Lpz. 1896.