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A NEW BOOK 

Dictionary of Hebrew Nouns

By Prof. Shmuel Bolozky

Prof. Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst

14,000 Hebrew Nouns and Adjectives Classified into 998 Patterns, with Grammatical Information

By Shmuel Bolozky, Published by Rubin Mass publishers, Jerusalem,

ISBN 978-965-09-0360-2, 828 pages, 2020

 

The dictionary is useful for every student and researcher, and is a must-read book in any academic library and libraries of schools that teach Hebrew.

As of June 2022 - available a new corrected edition with hyperlinks, from the indices to the patterns.

Why a dictionary of Hebrew nouns? Because Hebrew noun patterns often reveal information about the meaning of particular Hebrew nouns. Why online? Because hyperlinks shift you immediately from specific entries to detailed descriptions of the patterns in which they are realized.

To obtain this edition in a PDF file -  please write an email to rmass@barak.net.il and get a special price of US$ 40.00

 

Shmuel Bolozky (Ph.D. in Linguistics) is a Professor (Emeritus) of Hebrew, University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research areas are phonology (sound systems of languages) and morphology (word formation) in general, and Modern Hebrew phonology and morphology in particular, the application of linguistic methodology to the teaching of Hebrew as a foreign language, and corpus linguistics. He is Past President of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew.

 His major publications (in addition to many articles and book chapters, and over 100 presentations in professional conferences) are:

Measuring Productivity in Word Formation: The Case of Israeli Hebrew, Brill, 1999;

501 Hebrew Verbs, Barron’s, 1996 (3rd Edition 2018);

A Reference Grammar of Modern Hebrew, Cambridge University Press, 2005 (with Edna Coffin).

Book Description:

 

Dictionary of Hebrew Nouns

 In most languages, the need for a reference book on verbs is obvious, but why a dictionary of Hebrew nouns and adjectives, when one could use any regular Hebrew dictionary?

 In Hebrew, as in other Semitic languages, there are relationships between nouns and adjectives, and between those and related verbs, that can make their acquisition easier, and in many cases help one understand, or even guess, their meaning.

 While in a language like English, new words are derived from existing words mostly by prefixation or suffixation, Hebrew can do the same, but has an additional powerful mechanism, which uses discontinuous patterns where sound units are arranged in a fixed order, including root consonants, identical vowels, identical affixes, and the same stress pattern.

 Such patterns often have associated base meanings, and once the pattern is identified, the word meaning is clear, as are associations with related words, with the same root or same pattern.

 This dictionary offers the easy way to identify the exact pattern, and suggests to the reader how to attribute these nouns.

 

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Sample from the dictionary:

meCCaCa 

  1. our/your/their

    my/your/his/her

    .const

    Gloss

    sing/pl

    מֶמְשַׁלְתֵּנוּ/תְּכֶם/תְּכֶן/תָּם/תָּן

    מֶמְשַׁלְתִּי/תְּךָ/תֵּךְ/תּוֹֹ/תָּהּ

    מֶמְשֶׁלֶת-

    government

    מֶמְשָׁלָה נ'

    מֶמְשְׁלוֹתֵינוּ/כֶם/כֶן/הֶם/הֶן

    מֶמְשְׁלוֹתַי/תֶיךָ/תַיִךְ/תָיו/תֶיהָ

    מֶמְשְׁלוֹת-

    מֶמְשָׁלוֹת

     The declensions and vowel changes are similar to those in the miCCaCa pattern above.

     

    Examples

     מכיוון שמעולם לא זכתה מפלגה כלשהי ברוב באף אחת מן הבחירות בתולדות המדינה, כל המֶמְשָׁלוֹת בישראל הן מֶמְשְׁלוֹת קואליציה.

    Since no government in the history of the State of Israel has ever won a majority in any election, all Israeli governments are coalition governments.

     

    היום משתמשים במֶרְכָּבָה רק לצרכים טקסיים, למשל כשהמלכה אליזבת חוגגת יום הולדת עגול, ונתיניה מריעים לה משני צידי הדרך.

    Today they use a carriage only for ceremonial purposes, for instance, when Queen Elizabeth celebrates a “round” birthday, and her subjects cheer on both sides of the road.

     

    Special Expressions

     מֶמְשֶׁלֶת בובות puppet government

    מֶמְשֶׁלֶת צללים shadow government

    ראש מֶמְשָׁלָה prime minister

     

    Additional Examples in this Pattern

     מֶלְתָּחָה coat check; dressing room; wardrobe

    מֶרְקָחָה concoction; mix-up, confusion

     

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Price per copy of "Dictionary of Hebrew Nouns" : USA and Canada: US$95; Europe: US$90.00; including air delivery; Israel: NIS 210.00 including delivery.

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