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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... the verb (with other nearly related ideas, such as the place of the action), and are, therefore, mostly abstract', that participial Nouns, on the contrary, denote, for the most part, the subject of the action, or that to which the property belongs, and hence are concrete. It often happens, however, that a certain signification is found in single examples, which is not characteristic of the form. Rem. It need not appear strange, moreover, (and indeed all languages exhibit it) that a noun which in form and by usage is properly abstract, should be employed metaphorically as a concrete, and vice versa. So in English we say, his acquaintance, for those with whom he is acquainted; the Godhead, for God himself; in Heb. JHio, acquaintance and an acquaintance; 'PD, simplicity, for a simple one; on the contrary nxan, that which sinneth, for sin, which is a frequent use of the fem. concrete. ( 83, 6, 6, 11.) 83. NOUNS DERIVED FROM THE REGULAR VERB. (Lehrgeb. $ 120.) We distinguish here, I. Forms originally Participles, and participial Nouns, from Kal. 1. tpp, fem. nVt)p, the most simple participial form of Verbs middle A ( 49, 2), in use as a participle only in verbs 1# ( 71, 4). It is most frequendy employed as an adjective expressing quality, as Dpn, wise, in, new. It also occurs, however, as an Infinitive-form. (No. 12.) 2. SlOp, fem. fnt?!?, Part of verbs middle E is likewise the form of adjectives of quality; e. g. Jpf, old, old man; tP'St, dry. Sometimes, though seldom, the Tseri is impure, and this form is then related to No. 5; e. g. mourning (in other dialects 7y2H), fem. n, that which is plundered. 3. VtDp and SiCOp (with Hholem impure), fem. nVtOp, Part of verbs middle 0; e. g. 1.3, fearing, tlfpl, fowler; then...

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