LessonsEight Short Paradigms: Lafīf and Defective Verbs with Morphological ExplanationsQuiz

On printed page 60, both سَمَّى and تَلَقَّى appear beneath the heading wāw-final defective. The first has root س م و, but the generally established root of the second is ل ق ي.

VerbRootFinal radicalClassification by root
سَمَّىس م وWāwWāw-final
تَلَقَّىل ق يYāʾYāʾ-final

Preserve the book’s placement as source evidence, but do not infer that both share a final wāw. Root analysis and a printed subsection heading are different kinds of information.

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Reading the Printed Heading without Losing the Root

Eight Short Paradigms: Lafīf and Defective Verbs with Morphological Explanations

On printed page 60, both سَمَّى and تَلَقَّى appear beneath the heading wāw-final defective. The first has root س م و, but the generally established root of the second is ل ق ي.

VerbRootFinal radicalClassification by root
سَمَّىس م وWāwWāw-final
تَلَقَّىل ق يYāʾYāʾ-final

Preserve the book’s placement as source evidence, but do not infer that both share a final wāw. Root analysis and a printed subsection heading are different kinds of information.