G-form

English

Etymology

From German Grundstamm.

Noun

G-form (plural G-forms)

1. 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, [...]

See also

• G-stem