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Assyrian and other Languages, especially Hebrew. 9 



17. The Assyrian pronouns of the third person are not attached to verbal 

 roots in the same manner as those of the first and second are. The forms cor- 

 responding to lamad, lameda, lamedu, would be lavidd,* lamddt, lamdu, and 

 lamdu; the Assyrian distinguishing the gender in the third person plural; as 

 the Arabic and Syriac do, but the Hebrew does not. The Assyrian tense of 

 which I am speaking is used to denote state, or continued or habitual action. 

 Transient action, whether past, present, or future, is denoted by some tense, 

 the persons of which have the preformatives of what is called the Hebrew 

 future. There are four such tenses in each conjugation. 



\Oth June, 1854. 



* Or lamid; both are used, and, as it appears to me, indiscriminately. 



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