Dictionary of Hebrew Nouns (2nd corrected edition with hyperlinks)

14,000 Hebrew Nouns and Adjectives Classified into 998 Patterns, Available at Amazon Kindle, And as a PDF file by email to rmass@barak.net.il; With hyperlinked indices; Details: rav-shelet.ravpage.co.il/DictionaryofHebrewNouns

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Dictionary of Hebrew Nouns

In most languages, the need for a reference book on verbs is obvious, but why a dictionary of Hebrew nouns and adjectives, when one could use any regular Hebrew dictionary?

In Hebrew, as in other Semitic languages, there are relationships between nouns and adjectives, and between those and related verbs, that can make their acquisition easier, and in many cases help one understand, or even guess, their meaning.

While in a language like English, new words are derived from existing words mostly by prefixation or suffixation, Hebrew can do the same, but has an additional powerful mechanism, which uses discontinuous patterns where sound units are arranged in a fixed order, including root consonants, identical vowels, identical affixes, and the same stress pattern.

Such patterns often have associated base meanings, and once the pattern is identified, the word meaning is clear, as are associations with related words, with the same root or same pattern.

This dictionary offers the easy way to identify the exact pattern, and suggests to the reader how to attribute these nouns.

The dictionary is useful for every student and researcher, and is a must-read book in any academic library and libraries of schools that teach Hebrew.

Shmuel Bolozky (Ph.D. in Linguistics) is a Professor (Emeritus) of Hebrew, University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research areas are phonology (sound systems of languages) and morphology (word formation) in general, and Modern Hebrew phonology and morphology in particular, the application of linguistic methodology to the teaching of Hebrew as a foreign language, and corpus linguistics.  He is Past President of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew.

His major publications (in addition to many articles and book chapters, and over 100 presentations in professional conferences) are:

Measuring Productivity in Word Formation: The Case of Israeli Hebrew, Brill, 1999;

501 Hebrew Verbs, Barron’s, 1996 (3rd Edition 2018);

A Reference Grammar of Modern Hebrew, Cambridge University Press, 2005 (with Edna Coffin).