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Judah ben David Hayyuj

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176:"The Book of Verbs Containing Weak Letters." The treatise is in three parts: the first is devoted to verbs whose first radical is a weak letter, the second to verbs whose second radical is weak, and the third to verbs whose third radical is weak. Within each division, he furnishes what he considers a complete list of the class' verbs, enumerates various verb forms, and, when necessary, adds brief comments and explanations. Preceding each division, the principles underlying the formation of the stems belonging to the division are systematically outlined in a series of introductory chapters. 20: 208:"The Book of Extracts," is known to have been written by Hayyuj, but only a fragment, unpublished as of the beginning of the 20th century, and a few quotations by later authors have survived. This was a supplement to his two grammatical works on the verb, and he noted the verbs he omitted in the former treatises. In doing this he anticipated in a measure 377: 251:
John W. Nutt, "Two Treatises on Verbs Containing Feeble and Double Letters by R. Jehuda Ḥayug of Fez: From a Hebrew Translation of the Original Arabic by R. Moses Gikatilla of Cordova; to Which Is Added the Treatise on Punctuation by the Same Author, Translated by Aben Ezra: Edited from Bodleian
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Hayyuj exerted an immense influence on succeeding generations. All later Hebrew grammarians up to the present day base their works on his; and the technical terms still employed in current Hebrew grammars are most of them simply translations of the Arabic terms employed by Hayyuj. His first three
199:". This work, probably written before his two chief treatises, attempts to set forth the features underlying the Masoretic use of the vowels and tone. In this work, he deals chiefly with nouns, and their purpose is more of a practical than of a theoretical character. 185:"The Book of Verbs Containing Double Letters", and in which he points out the principles governing the verbs whose second and third radicals are alike. He furnishes a list of these verbs and their various forms occurring in the 151:
in Hebrew containing three letters, two letters, and one letter, respectively, was pointed out by Dunash; but, although the latter was on the road to a solution of the problem, it was left to Ḥayyuj to find the key.
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Ewald and Dukes, "Beiträge zur Geschichte der Aeltesten Auslegung und Spracherklärung des Alten Testaments," Stuttgart, 1844. (i. 123, ii. 155; vol. iii. contains Ibn Ezra's translation of Hayyuj; linked
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letter," such a letter could be regarded as "concealed" in diverse ways in the various verbal forms. To substantiate his theory, he wrote the treatise upon which his reputation chiefly rests, the
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M. Jastrow, Jr., "The Weak and Geminative Verbs in Hebrew by . . . Hayyug, the Arabic Text Now Published for the First Time." Leyden, 1897. (Comp. Bacher in "J. Q. R." xi. 504-514.)
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grammatical literature led him to apply the theories elaborated by Arabic grammarians to Hebrew grammar and thus become the founder of the scientific study of that discipline.
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Aharon Maman and Ephraim ben-Porat: כִּתַאבּ אַלנֻּתַף: ‏פירושו הדקדוקי של ר׳ יהודה חיוג׳ לספרי נביאים בעיבוד עלי בן סלימן . Texts and Studies, New Series 12. Jerusalem 2012.
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Abu Zakarijja Jahja b. Dawud Hajjug und Seine Zwei Grammatischen Schriften über die Verben mit Schwachen Buchstaben und die Verben mit Doppelbuchstaben,
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Hayyuj announced that all Hebrew stems consist of three letters and maintained that when one of those letters was a "
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and was obliged to step forward as an opponent of the grammatical theories of his teacher. His thorough knowledge of
104:, where he seems to have remained till his death about 1000. He was the first to propose that Hebrew words stem from 443: 136: 346: 395: 144: 59: 39: 418: 191: 390: 413: 232: 204: 148: 214: 291: 281: 121: 117: 97: 93: 236: 209: 135:
Preceding scholars had found the greatest difficulty in accounting, by the laws of Hebrew
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Die Stellung und Bedeutung des J. Hajjug in der Geschichte der Hebräischen Grammatik,
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Texts and Studies in the Hebrew Language and Related Subjects 11. Tel Aviv 2001.
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As a supplement to this treatise he wrote a second, which he called the
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and his followers. Later in life, Hayyuj developed his theories about
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MSS. with an English Translation." London and Berlin, 1870 (linked
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of the verbs. The weakness of Menahem's assertion that there are
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and is regarded as the father of Hebrew scientific grammar.
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Hebrew
romanized
Arabic
romanized
Maghrebi Jew
Al-Andalus
North Africa
linguist
Fez
Fatimid Caliphate
Córdoba
Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain
triconsonantal roots
Menahem ben Saruq
Dunash ben Labrat
Hebrew grammar
Arabic
morphology
"strong" and "weak" verbs
conjugation
stems
Semitic root
vowel
Kitab al-Af'al Dhawat Huruf al-Lin
Kitab al-Af'al Dhawat al-Mathalain
Bible
Kitab al-Tanqit
Punctuation
Kitab al-Natf

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