Citations:otiant

English citations of otiant

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• 1831, Moses Stuart, A Grammar of the Hebrew language, Oxford: D. A. Talboys, page 106:

  The final radical in these verbs either quiesces, or becomes otiant and falls out, both in conjugation and declension, every where with only two exceptions.

• 1838, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge, The North American Review, page 526:

  We had supposed, as [...] is the root of this word, and as [...] (1 person singular future) stands for [...], the final Aleph being dropped in the abridged form because it is otiant, that in such a case the third radical is dropped, and not the second. But what the compensation by Qamets has to do with all this, [...]

• 1846, Wilhelm Gesenius, Hebrew Grammar of Gesenius as Edited by Roediger, page 57:

  [Now, since the vowels are supplied, it is merely quiescent or otiant,* in such cases]. […] * [In the older grammars, a letter is called otiant (otiatur) when it is neither a proper consonant, nor coalescent with a homogeneous vowel, and has no force or sound; like l in would.]

• 1866, William Henry Green, A Grammar of the Hebrew Language, page 210:

  [...] roots are restricted to forms with i, in which the radical [...] quiesces, [...] with otiant א, [...]