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t8s Etrlrj tona;lt d (rxttrar gf the B*L* Lllsguage,
Pethrot Hplrrn rr frnnrt too rirnilrr ii: ;rloDrf to Yapdcm, :vhcn this lqrt
lred trrcn tolgrritrrl inbo l,lxlow.. rrd the imJnretire is rlro nilrl.,, thG snma.
Hene: thc lfalrese tcy /t'a.rdo*i, ftrr tfrs first pcru. aing. lnn in tlre plnral.
f *,lrmt*, Tasdwit, Na;,lrt'om\. 3rlnnlly iry tbe forrn P.avdatner, ihe Ber.
bfft rvoid tlre arvkwertf ;1rt1triq'niti' of ital-rie, in n'hicli " 6lr€ doer" and
- thot doEt" ar: the rcrr,' Eem€ wonl,
Ilrt berider there sin';lnrities of verbal infi:ctiou, re haye thc prcnoutr$:
l, &c $'e, &e, !:cu, &c. Ye,
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Eont niglrt tirirrk ir prredoxical to mrintrin, that tha two frrnilier of
lenguryrr drew frntn ,r eommon sGurce i an(l tlrat tlro Bcrtrers hrvc retained
the older fcrtmb. Yet rt pri*i this ir not ntr el! inererhbie; and in romo of
thc formt tirgp is the rltFeurDee of it. J!'altri, pl, .Alalni; compared
witlr Nalld (for prinritive NaHol, pl. In,a$ri, rP;n'rn Fefnlrr; bnt irc*t,
pl. Eta.+tn, is le"s ro, rnri hrr no Hcflrew plrslle!. Ani (Hebrew), rnd
i;a 1J\'rbici, Bppcr corruptionr of inolli- |In"y may eaeilr older tbrn
ffd. On compari'rg thc Coptic nmDoEFa l{iohi (I), lnan (vVe), rith
aofrxts i nnd n 7 rnrl iu tbc rcctnrd ptton, snffiser E:d rerbsl inF.exians,
^ff (iir eir.f.l, fcr (in plural) ; onr preveiing eonrtr'tion iu, t! at v-'.riou!
Afnern lrnguegtg n:nst originnily hat'* had some of tlrere points in eommon
rith the $hemitie.
itforeovar, in lrerber arr,l in the Shernitic tonFucr, rr rnd fo ()n) aru
plrrnl terminatiens ; whirh roem eonrnon to noinnr rnrl verh't; just ar in
l'ntlirlr the,v torF: tden (a rnsn), Ada'n/rrr (men I I nn,l Brridi (he lmt