- ʿAvdat
inscription shows that
final [n] had been
deleted in
undetermined triptotes, and that the
final short vowels of the
determined state were intact....
- the
preposition لـِ li- is used. For
fully declined nouns,
known as "
triptote" (مُنْصَرِفٌ munṣarif), that is,
having three separate case endings,...
-
later than 150 CE
shows that
final [n] had been
deleted in
undetermined triptotes, and that the
final short vowels of the
determined state were intact....
- construct" declension.
These are
triptotes with long case
endings -ū -ā -ī in the
singular construct state, and
normal triptote endings elsewhere.
There are...
-
Safaitic (ca. 3rd – 4th
century AD)
Triptote Diptote Dual
Masculine plural Feminine plural Nominative ∅..الـ (ʾal-)...-∅ -∅ الـ)..ـَان) (ʾal-)...-ān الـ)...
- to the Safaitic, in
which there is no case
distinction with
determined triptotes, but the
indefinite accusative is
marked with a
final /ʾ/. In
JSLih 384...
-
grammatical indefinite case
endings in
Literary Arabic or
classical Arabic (
triptotes only). In a
vocalised text, they may be
written even if they are not pronounced...
- the
differentiation from the name عُمَر /ʕumar/). And in fact, عمرو is a
triptote (something rare in
proper nouns,
since they are
usually diptotes). Qāriʾ...
- was expected, but he made a "mistake" and
pronounced Umar's name with a
triptote ending (Arabic: عمرِ),
turning the
meaning of the
formula into "may Allah...
