<div dir="auto">I believe RMH is referring to qitl vs. qatl (e.g. from a Google search, (1) <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=i2d9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=qitl+qatl&source=bl&ots=70EcWnnjek&sig=ACfU3U0N-WXh1tfm31GIZClG0hlfe74oJw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjp6O2h2Pz0AhWDkIkEHSLGCqkQ6AF6BAgNEAI#v=onepage&q=qitl%20qatl&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://books.google.com/books?id=i2d9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=qitl+qatl&source=bl&ots=70EcWnnjek&sig=ACfU3U0N-WXh1tfm31GIZClG0hlfe74oJw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjp6O2h2Pz0AhWDkIkEHSLGCqkQ6AF6BAgNEAI#v=onepage&q=qitl%20qatl&f=false</a> ; (2) <a href="https://www.academia.edu/13242550/A_Note_on_Segholate_Adjectives_in_Biblical_Hebrew" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.academia.edu/13242550/A_Note_on_Segholate_Adjectives_in_Biblical_Hebrew</a> ; (3) <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/pubs/060395P-front.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjhq_6Q2fz0AhUJkYkEHe1yAg04ChAWegQIFhAB&usg=AOvVaw0aH88kjExnzzeL5gz-U87K">https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/pubs/060395P-front.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjhq_6Q2fz0AhUJkYkEHe1yAg04ChAWegQIFhAB&usg=AOvVaw0aH88kjExnzzeL5gz-U87K</a> ; (4) <a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hebrew-grammar">https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hebrew-grammar</a> ).<br><br>A gut'n Shabbes and all the best from <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--Michael via phone</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 12:38 AM M. Hamm via Mesorah <<a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">R' Akiva Miller:</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><<I'm not going to ask why "teven" and "melech" are exceptions to the rule.>></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Funny thing is, I'm not even sure they can be called that.  Rather, there are two separate rules, for two separate classes of words.  Or at least so it was explained to me: <a href="https://mi.yodeya.com/a/98964" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mi.yodeya.com/a/98964</a></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Another interesting distinction among the kind of words is how they form construct-state words.  Some take an _a_ (avdi, malki, shamni), others an _i_ (bigdi, kirbi, tivni).  I haven't the foggiest notion whether that's related to the other distinction: perhaps someone else on the list will.</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">M.</div></div></div>
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