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  (from bant, and this again, according to the law stated in, for bint, fem. of ), with suff. for. Plur. , from the sing. , comp. .

husband’s father, only with suff. , ; and husband’s mother, only with suff. , . Cf. ,, and especially.

(Arab. yaum), dual ; the plur. is probably from a different sing. ,  and (poetically), ,.

, in  (with suff.  ) from, plur. (as if from, ; according to König, ii. 63, shortened from kilyîm).


 * on the plur. cf..

. The plur. is scarcely syncopated from, as it is pointed in (no doubt erroneously, in imitation of the preceding ), but from a kindred sing. , which still occurs in proper names.

,  (for original  = ?). Its origin is still disputed. According to Gesenius and König (ii. 103), stands for  (ground-form piʿay) from ; according to Olshausen, for, from a stem  or. But parallel with the Hebrew are Assyr. pû, Arab. fû, fam, famm, fumm, bibl. Aram. ,, Syr. pûm, pûmā, so that Barth, xli, p. 634, assumes two forms of development from the same stem, viz. fm and fw. , from pi-y; for we find in, ,. The supposed plur. is generally explained as a contraction from, but the text is altogether corrupt. The plur. , for the edges of a sword, occurs in ; reduplicated,.

(obscured from =răʾš); plur. (for, ); only in.

(sheep or goat), ''constr. st.'', with suff. and, according to König, ii. 131, from a ground-form siʾay, but according to De Lagarde,, 81 f., from a stem (=say=wĭsay).

, generally  (only six times ); cf. .

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Brockelmann, ., p. 116 ff.;, i. 484 ff.

1. The formation of the cardinal numbers from 3 to 10 (on 1 and 2 see below) has this peculiarity, that numerals connected with a