LessonsAl-Aṣwāt — Sound-words, Their Two Uses and Grammatical AnalysisQuiz

A sound-word is a conventional expression representing a sound or a call.

Such words are not ordinary verbs whose past, present and imperative forms can be freely conjugated. Their usage is learned from established linguistic convention.

This expands the short source definition; the book does not present a full paradigm here.

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Al-Aṣwāt — Sound-words, Their Two Uses and Grammatical Analysis

A sound-word is a conventional expression representing a sound or a call.

Such words are not ordinary verbs whose past, present and imperative forms can be freely conjugated. Their usage is learned from established linguistic convention.

This expands the short source definition; the book does not present a full paradigm here.