Names in Phoenician

     Nouns are words that name people, animals, and concrete (corporal) things. They express abstract (intangible) things, thoughts, and feelings. So nouns and verbs form the human dictionary. From verbs we make nouns, from nouns we make adjectives and from adjectives we make adverbs.  

In the Holy Books, it is said the God taught Adam all the names, i.e. every word needed by Adam to express his thoughts, actions, etc. , throughout life.

Usually, when a noun is not available, we make it from a verb (whether one of three letters or more) by adding to the beginning or end of the verb. 

Nouns can be either simple or compound. In the latter case, two or more words are used together (separate or fused) to make a noun with a new meaning. In Phoenician, it follows that when a suffix is added to the root word, this results is a person’s name, which will be the name of a deity. Prefixes added to the name of a deity will produce the name of a person who belongs or serves that deity. Names of feminines often end with the feminine "t" but when added to the beginning of a verb or end of the verb it changes the mood of the verb from the present to the past. Affixes enrich the vocabulary of a language, and Phoenician is so abundant with that.

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