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English
Etymology
From German Grundstamm.
Noun
G-form (plural G-forms)
- The base form of a verb (as opposed to its extended verb forms), particularly in the Semitic languages
1994, Wheeler M. Thackston, chapter 23, in An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic: An Elementary Grammar of the Language, pages 139–140:Form I is the base, or ground, form of the verb and will be referred to henceforth as the "G-form," the Semitic designation, from Grundstamm (“base stem”)
2007, Paolo Ramat, Elisa Roma, editors, Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective, page 11:Koranic Arabic verbs don't occur only with -a-a- vowels — like kataba ‘he wrote’ — in the Pf-stems of their active G-forms: some transitive action verbs like šariba ‘drink’ and several stative and psychological verbs like ḥasiba ‘suppose’ have i as their second stem vowel, [...]
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