A Comparative Lexical Study of Qur?anic Arabic

oots, 2, 6
not attested elsewhere, 590
root-inventory, 2, 586
Schriftsprache, 40, 40 n. 60
semantic duality, 560
supra-tribal, 43
typology, 580 n. 9
unifying language, 17
uninflected, 40
within the Semitic family, 1
Arabicization, 45
'arabyya, 36-39, 39 nn. 53-54, 40,
40 n. 62, 41-43
bedoum, 40
culture, 40-41
question, 37
supra-tribal, 40
Arabs
'ariba, 29, 29 n. 2
and Roman society, 33
Christian, 52, 59
Jewish, 52
in South Arabian inscriptions, 32
Kedarites, 31
musta'raba, 29
nomads, 580
origins, 29
proto-, 30
regional military power, 33
Arabu, Aribi, 30
Aramaean-Hellenistic culture, 31
Aramaic, 2, 3 n. 10, 8 n. 36, 10, 22,
31, 32 n. 15, 44, 56 n. 134, 58, 60,
64, 65, 532, 559, 562, 579, 579
n. 9, 581 n. 18, 582, 582 nn. 19, 21,
583, 583 n. 23, 584 n. 27, 586, 587
loanwords, 58, 58 n. 143, 59
Targum, 57
Arbi, Arbaya, 30
arbitrariness
limited, 7
archaic speech, 33
areal distribution, 567, 569, 575
Asarhaddon, 31
associative fields, 2
Assurbanipal, 31
Assyria, 31
Assyrian, 64
axes of social contact, 581
Babylonian(s), 31, 64
Banu Lahm, 34, 52 n. 108
Banu Gassan, 34, 52 n. 108
basic meanings, 6, 15, 515, 527, 559
Basra, 38 n. 51, 44, 45 n. 86
GENERAL INDEX 647
bedouin tribes, 42
bedouins, 30, 38
the true arbiters, 38
bedouin dialects, 42
Berber, 3 n. 10, 56, 584 n. 27
biblical scholarship, 22
Byzantium, 52
caiques, 55
camel, 579, 580 nn. 10, 13
Canaanite, 2 n. 8, 64, 579, 581 n. 18,
582, 582 nn. 19, 21, 583 n. 23
caravan trade, 30 n. 8, 33, 34 n. 28
central area, 544, 569
Central Semitic, 582, 582 n. 21, 584
n. 27
Levantine, 582 n. 21
Chaldaeans, 3, 31
Christian Arab, 59
classification (linguistic), 583
futility, 585
methodological criteria, 581
classification of Semitic languages, 1
need for revision, 1
cognacy, 7, 13, 14 n. 46, 16
definition, 13, 65-66
diachronic process, 13
cognate languages, 2-4, 7, 9, 14,
21-22, 47, 55, 515-517, 527, 546,
567
cognate lexical evidence, 514
cognates, 65, 561-563, 585
distribution, 65, 562, 567
historical stability, 585
total number, 561, 563
unconfirmed, 65, 561
common origins, 585
Common Semitic, 22, 22 n. 31,
23-24, 516 n. 9, 541, 552-553,
559, 583 n. 24, 586
exclusion of loanwords, 23
different criteria, 22
lexicon, 4, 4 n. 18, 22
semantic domains, 47, 47 n. 103,
61, 587
vocabulary, 22-23
comparative dictionaries, 19
17th c., 19
comparative lexicography, 19-20
comparative Semitic studies, 3-4,
19-20, 559, 585
early works, 19
Jewish scholarship, 19
comparative Semitics
Biblical Scholarship, 3