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G-form
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Etymology
From en de Grundstamm.
Noun
en Semitic linguistics The base form of a verb (as opposed to its extended verb forms), particularly in the Semitic languages
en 1994 Wheeler M. Thackston An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic: An Elementary Grammar of the Language 139–140 23 Form I is the base, or ground, form of the verb and will be referred to henceforth as the "G-form," the Semitic designation, from de Grundstamm base stem
en 2007 Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective Paolo Ramat; Elisa Roma 11 Koranic Arabic verbs don't occur only with -a-a- vowels — like kataba ‘he wrote’ — in the Pf-stems of their active G-forms: some transitive action verbs like šariba ‘drink’ and several stative and psychological verbs like ḥasiba ‘suppose’ have i as their second stem vowel, [...] https://books.google.fi/books?id=9QM6AAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA19&dq=%22G-form%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q=%22G-form%22&f=false
See also
en G-stem