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... but construct forms — to judge by Coptic — were in use. Masculine and feminine nouns of instrument or material are formed from verbal roots by prefixing m; e.g. m-sdm-t, " stibium," from sdm, " paint the eye." Substantives and adjectives are formed from subst ...

... rks are extant: On Syntax, ed. Bekker, 1817; and three smaller treatises, on Pronouns, Conjunctions and Adverbs, ed. Schneider, 1878. Grammatici Graeci, i. in Teubner series; Egger, Apollonius Dyscole (1854). APOLLONIUS, surnamed 6 juaXaxos ("the Effeminate"), ...

... sake of the classification of names; in the De Interpretatione he distinguished nouns and verbs from sentences with a view to the enunciative sentence: in the Analytics he analysed the syllogism into premisses and premisses into terms and copula, for the purpo ...

... onest for women's names. But no trace of gender has yet been observed in common nouns or adjectives. Nor is it always easy to distinguish a " Case " from a noun-stem. The women's names corresponding to the men's names in -u are sometimes -ui, sometimes -nei, s ...

... . c. From these are derived the suffixes, which are shortened forms attached to nouns to express the possessor, and to verbs to express the subject. In the latter case the verb was probably in the participle, so that fdmll-sn, " they hear," is literally hearin ...

... ons between masculine and feminine, singular, dual and plural-^except in the pronouns. The dual number had been given up entirely at an earlier date. The pronouns, both personal and demonstrative, retained their forms very fully. As prefixes, suffixes and arti ...

... " bring " are irregular. . Partly derived from adjectival formations in y, from nouns and infinitives: — e.g. S-16, inf. slpt; adj. ilpty; verb (4 lit.), slpty. Many verbs with weak consonants — ly, iv, 1 1. inf. (m[w]t), and those with • — are particularly di ...