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Re: Three letter root words, relationships to subject

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 3, 2002, 12:02
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 00:23:40 -0800 Abrigon Gusiq <abrigon@...>
writes:
> I do like how Arabic does it.. Allah/Bishmallah, Islam/Muslim are > based on the roots of alh(?) and slm.
- Well, technically "bismallah" is |b| 'with/by/in' |ism| '[the] name [of]' |allah| 'God', so there isn't really any pattern-alternation going on with the root that i can see.
> Not sure if I go for pre/suffizes and like?
- You can go for whatever you want in order to make different patterns - internal vowel alternations, prefixes, suffixes, infixes, circumfixes...
> Colors based on where they are on the color chart. Red to Blue. > > Mike > Alaska
- -Stephen (Steg) "eep."