The Miut Amil, and shurhoo miut amil; two elementary treatises on arabic syntax

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 Excerpt: ...j these letters being considered proximate representatives of tbe same sound. Uboo Obccdch, and gJ IsJ I»»o Turawdh, imagine it to be compounded of and the letter li" redundant in some other word, as in-the following example from the Q ioran, »«u but this is ridiculous; the Ta is not redundant in the word it belongs to the I, „.-i Terb and must hare been joined to the word by the carelessness of some transcriber. » It is written thus erroneously in Maracri. The author of the Mooghnee his entered into minate details regarding its government and the conditions attending, its government, but they d» not appear to me of sufficient importance to transcribe. C and i if explained and illustrated at full length would far exceed the b ounJs of this Commentary, indeed it is to be feared I have already explained more than is accessary, I shall therefore close this annotation, with one or two miscellaneous remarks. The intensive or corroborative negative which in Greek is effected by two or more negatiecs is provided for in Arabic, by a peculiar form of conjugation i. e. by the adjection of the pro hibitive and Noon Sukeela subjoined, as ioj V "let him certainly not strike." But this it must be remembered is applicable only to prohibitive forms of expression. It is curious to observe the concourse of negatives in the following passage from Demosthenes, OiSercre co&v cu fiv yevvfTHnSv SfcWwV. 'Nothing that is necessary will eves (or never) be done,' which however is not more rema-rk»ble than the following attributed to a cockney who had lost his hat--"Did nobody see nothing of never a hat no where I" The particle u in almost all its various, and evtrr opposite relations, bears a striking o, resemblanc...