L4.4: Geminated Verbs

These verbs have a reduplicated second radical, geminated, and become a triconsonantical root. The Akkadian language has absorved these verbs into the triconsoantical system, so that they behave like strong verbs.

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The term geminated comes from the latin geminatio which means doubling. Remeber the name of the constellation gemini “twins”. These verbs are also known as mediae geminatae.

However it is relevant to note that the geminated fientic verbs build a semantic class. They have a durative connotation, they describe actions and processes that consist on a series small similar actions or processes:

example

• šakāku “pile up”

• šakāku “to line up”

• zanānu “rain”