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Etymology and Related Aspects among Early Arab Linguists and Grammarians Murad Musa Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education and Beit Berl College Etymology , as a branch of linguistics that endeavors to discover the sources of words and how they evolved diachronically and synchronically , of necessity deals with the forms of words and the way they are derived from roots and stems . For this reason , an understanding of the source of words has the effect that lexical words are more ingrained and more frequently in use in different contexts . The most common term used by medieval Arabic linguists and grammarians to denote etymology is ishtiq › q , which refers to derivation from a root or a stem . There also exist a number of modern terms , such as ishtiq › q ›› mm (“ general derivation” ) , m › dda a › liyya (“ basic form” ) versus m › dda far › iyya (“ derived form” ) , and others . The phonology of consonants as sounds and an understanding of the derivation of the term for it (› arf ) , as well as the phonology of vowels and the nunation ( tanw › n ) attached to the letters that make up the word , are of great importance for understanding the structure and form of words . This is related to what are called the stem and the root , which constitute the foundation for every lexical word . Most verbs and nouns have triliteral roots , although diachronically it is the accepted view that originally roots consisted of two consonants , to which a third radical was later added . Triliteral roots occasionally undergo what is called elision (› adhf ) , so

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