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 Rem. A large number of proper names now ending in or  used to be classed as nouns originally formed with the affix. The subsequent rejection of the final Nûn seemed to be confirmed by the form, once used for  (and conversely in   ,   for ), also by the fact that for  the LXX give the form  or , and especially that in patronymics and tribal names  a Nûn appears before the termination î, as  from  and  from  (modern name Sailûn). Wetzstein, however (in Delitzsch’s Commentary on Job, 1st ed., p. 599), explained the Nûn in as a secondary addition to the common old-Palestinian termination ô (,, , &c.), and Barth (, §224b) has since shown the unsoundness of the prevailing view on other grounds: the rejection of the Nûn would be much more likely to occur in the numerous appellatives in ôn than in proper names, and  and  are due to the necessity of avoiding, for euphonic reasons, such forms as gîlô-î, šîlô-î, &c.; cf. also from.

On the afformatives, , , , see below, –l.

XII. Quadriliterals and Quinqueliterals.

55., , and the fem , &c., have probably arisen from the insertion of a ; , , , (verses 6, 8 ),  (also ) anxious thoughts, , from insertion of a , which is common in Aramaic. Cf., moreover,, ; with an initial , , , , , &c.—Quinqueliteral,.

1. Such are all nouns formed immediately from another noun, whether the latter be primitive or derived from a verb, e.g., immediately from (verbal stem ).

2. Most of the forms which nouns of this class assume have already been given in and, since the denominatives, as secondary (although in some cases very old) forms, invariably follow the analogy of the verbal derivatives. As, for instance, the verbals with a prefixed ( to m) express the place, &c., of an action, so the denominatives with  represent the place where a thing is found or its neighbourhood (see e).

The most common forms of denominatives are—

1. Those like the, e.g. , from ; , from ; , from.

2. Those like the form qăṭṭāl, e.g. , from.