§ 81. Derivation of Nouns.
Brockelmann, Grundriss, p. 329 ff.
Rem. 1. The earlier grammarians consider the verb alone as stem, and therefore all nouns as verbals, dividing them into (a) Formae nudae, i. e. such as have only the three (or two) radicals, and (b) Formae auctae, such as have formative letters or syllables added at the beginning or end, e. g. b
hk'l'm.m;; tWkl.m; . The formative letters used for this purpose arew y t n m a h (wyTin>m;a/h, ),1 and the treatment of nouns formerly followed this order.
According to the view of roots and stems presented in § 30 d, nouns (other than denominatives) are derived not from the verbal stem, but either from the (abstract) root or from the still undefined stem. In the following pages, however, the arrangement according to the verbal stem is retained as being simpler for the beginner. Cf. § 79 a. c
2. Compound nouns as appellatives, are very rare in Hebrew, e. g. d
l[;Y:ÐliB. worthlessness, baseness. On the other hand, they very frequently occur as proper names, e.g.laeyrIb.G: (man of God),~yqiy"Ah)y> (Yahwe raises up),!t'n"Ah)y> (Yahwe gave), &c.2
Footnotes:
2[2] G. Rammelt (Über die zusammengesetzten Nomina im Hebr., Halle, 1883, and Leipzig, 1884) recognizes as appellatives only