ON THE BILITERAL ROOT QUADRILITERAL VERBS IN ASSYRIAN CHRISTIANS URMI NEO-ARAMAIC

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the investigation of the bilateral root quadrilateral verbs in the Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Urmi. The active and passive stems of such verbs in different Semitic languages including Classical Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Neo-Aamaic are discussed. The reduplication models in such languages as Hindi, Turkish and Japanese, are given for comparison. The verbs ascending to Classical Syriac and those compared with Hebrew are written down. The loan-words from Arabic and Persian are discussed apart. The cases of these verbs phonetic similarity with other languages including English are found. The semantic of these verbs being mostly mimetic or onomatopoeic is investigated. The list of verbs is given in Appendix.

Keywords

• урмийский
• современный ассирийский
• глагол
• порода
• редупликация
• звукоподражание
• звукоизображение
• urmi
• neo-aramaic
• verb
• stem
• reduplication
• onomatopoeic
• mimetic
• denominative