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קָרִיא
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Yesterday we saw the word לָעִיס (lah-EES), meaning chewy or chew-able. This adjective comes from the simple verb, לִלְעוֹס.
Today I'll introduce a word of the same structure, but from a different verb. קָרִיא means legible or readable, deriving from the simple verb, לִקְרוֹא (leek-ROH) meaning to read (or to call out - since texts were once read out loud by the literate elite to the illiterate masses).
Note how the adjectives קָרִיא and לָעִיס have identical vowel patterns, as do the verbs they derive from, לִקְרוֹא and לִלְעוֹס.
The feminine version of readable is קְרִיאָה (keh-ree-AH), which looks and sounds the same as the word for the act of reading.
שבת שלום וסוף שבוע נעים לכולם!
Shabbat Shalom and a pleasant weekend to all!
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Today I'll introduce a word of the same structure, but from a different verb. קָרִיא means legible or readable, deriving from the simple verb, לִקְרוֹא (leek-ROH) meaning to read (or to call out - since texts were once read out loud by the literate elite to the illiterate masses).
Note how the adjectives קָרִיא and לָעִיס have identical vowel patterns, as do the verbs they derive from, לִקְרוֹא and לִלְעוֹס.
The feminine version of readable is קְרִיאָה (keh-ree-AH), which looks and sounds the same as the word for the act of reading.
שבת שלום וסוף שבוע נעים לכולם!
Shabbat Shalom and a pleasant weekend to all!
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