§ 82. Primitive Nouns.

The number of primitive nouns in the sense used in § 81 is small, (since nouns, which in other languages are represented as independent noun-stems, can easily be traced back in Hebrew to the verbal idea, e. g. names of animals and natural objects, as ry[if' he-goat (prop. shaggy, from r[;f'), hr'[of. barley (prop. prickly, also from r[;f'), hd'ysix]) stork (prop. pia, sc. avis), bh'z" gold (from bh;z" = bh;c' to shine, to be yellow). Thus there remain only a few nouns, e. g. several names of members of the body in men or beasts, to which a corresponding verbal stem cannot be assigned at all, or at any rate only indirectly (from other Semitic dialects), as !r,q,ñ horn, !yI[;ñ eye.