12 Apr
2020
12 Apr
'20
1:51 a.m.
Thinking this further.. Even if we chose to interpret the qaqIpta'be' as qaqIp(ta'be'), i.e. the {-be'} acting on the {-ta'} and then their combined meaning acting on the verb, then again I don't see how we could have the "I deliberately did not hit you" meaning. With the {-be'} acting solely on the {-ta'}, the meaning goes that "an action which would be intentional didn't happen", since the way I understand the "intentionality" of the {-ta'}, it is a concept coloring the verb and not the {-be'} which follows it. ~ mayqel qunen'oS