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<p><b>Segolates</b> are words in the <a href="Hebrew_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrew languages">Hebrew language</a> whose end is of the form CVCVC, where the <a href="Penult" title="Penult">penultimate</a> vowel receives <a href="Syllable_stress" class="mw-redirect" title="Syllable stress">syllable stress</a>. Such words are called "segolates" because the final unstressed vowel is typically (but not always) <i><a href="Segol" title="Segol">segol</a></i>.
</p><p>These words evolved from older <a href="Semitic_languages" title="Semitic languages">Semitic</a> words that ended in a complex <a href="Syllable#Coda" title="Syllable">coda</a>; indeed, when a suffix (other than an absolute plural) is added to a segolate, the original form (or something similar) reappears (cf. <i>kéleḇ</i> "dog" vs. <i>kalbī</i> "my dog").
</p><p>Examples:
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<th>*<a href="Biblical_Hebrew" title="Biblical Hebrew">Ancient</a>
</th>
<th colspan="2"><a href="Tiberian_vocalization" title="Tiberian vocalization">Tiberian</a>
</th>
<th colspan="2">Stem
</th>
<th>Meaning
</th></tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">*ʼarṥ
</td>
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</style><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">אֶרֶץ, אָרֶץ</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">ʼéreṣ, ʼā́reṣ
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">אַרְצ־</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">ʼarṣ-
</td>
<td>earth; land
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">*ʼurn
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">אֹרֶן</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">ʼṓren
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">אָרְנ־</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">ʼorn-
</td>
<td>pine tree
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">*baʻl
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">בַּעַל, בָּעַל</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">báʻal, bā́ʻal
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">בַּעֲל־</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">baʻăl-
</td>
<td>husband
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">*zarʻ
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">זֶרַע, זָרַע</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">zéraʻ, zā́raʻ
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">זַרְע־</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">zarʻ-
</td>
<td>seed
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">*yayn
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יַיִן, יָיִן</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">yáyin, yā́yin
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יֵינ־</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">yên-
</td>
<td>wine
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">*milḥ
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">מֶלַח</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">mélaḥ
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">מִלְח־</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">milḥ-
</td>
<td>salt
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">*milk
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">מֶלֶך</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">méleḵ
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">מַלְכּ־</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">malk-
</td>
<td>king
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">*kalb
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">כֶּלֶב, כָּלֶב</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">kéleḇ, kā́leḇ
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">כַּלְבּ־</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">kalb-
</td>
<td>dog
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">*laḥy
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">לֶחִי, לְחִי</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">léḥî, ləḥî
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">לֶחֱי־</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">leḥĕy-
</td>
<td>cheek; tool jaw
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">*ʻibr
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">עֵבֶר</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">ʻḖḇer
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">עִבְר־</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">ʻiḇr-
</td>
<td><a href="Eber" title="Eber">Eber</a>
</td></tr>
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<td align="left" dir="ltr">*ʻayn
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">עַיִן, עָיִן</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">ʻáyin, ʻā́yin
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">עֵינ־</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">ʻên-
</td>
<td>eye
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">*ṣidq
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">צֶדֶק</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">ṣéḏeq
</td>
<td align="right" dir="rtl"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">צִדְק־ (צַדְק־?)</span>
</td>
<td align="left" dir="ltr">ṣiḏq-
</td>
<td>righteousness
</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>The ancient forms like <i>*CawC</i> (such as <i>šawr</i> "bull") almost universally evolved to non-segolate <i>CôC</i> (<span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">שׁוֹר</span> šôr), though there are exceptions, such as <span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">מָוֶת</span> <i>mā́weṯ</i> "death".
</p><p>Some segolate words' final syllable ends with a <a href="Patach" title="Patach">patach</a> rather than a segol, due to the influence of guttural consonants (<span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">ה</span>, <span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">ע</span>, <span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">א</span>, <span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">ח</span>) in the final syllable.
</p><p><a href="Classical_Arabic" title="Classical Arabic">Classical Arabic</a> still preserves forms similar to the reconstructed Ancient Hebrew forms, although significantly simplified.<sup id="cite_ref-muraoka_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-muraoka-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Examples include <i>ʼarḍ</i> "earth", <i>kalb</i> "dog", <i>ʻayn</i> "eye", <i>ṣidq</i> "sincerity".
</p><p>Some modern dialects insert an <a href="Epenthetic" class="mw-redirect" title="Epenthetic">epenthetic</a> vowel between the final two consonants, similar to what happened in Hebrew.
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</style><div id="Hebrew_language139" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew language</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Overviews</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Language</a></li>
<li><a href="Hebrew_alphabet" title="Hebrew alphabet">Alphabet</a></li>
<li><a href="History_of_the_Hebrew_alphabet" title="History of the Hebrew alphabet">History</a></li>
<li><a href="Canaanite_and_Aramaic_inscriptions" title="Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions">Ancient inscriptions</a></li>
<li><a href="Romanization_of_Hebrew" title="Romanization of Hebrew">Transliteration to English</a> / <a href="Hebraization_of_English" title="Hebraization of English">from English</a></li>
<li><a href="Gematria" title="Gematria">Gematria</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Biblical_Hebrew" title="Biblical Hebrew">Biblical</a> <small>(<a href="Israelian_Hebrew" title="Israelian Hebrew">northern dialect</a>)</small></li>
<li><a href="Mishnaic_Hebrew" title="Mishnaic Hebrew">Mishnaic</a></li>
<li><a href="Medieval_Hebrew" title="Medieval Hebrew">Medieval</a></li>
<li><a href="Modern_Hebrew" title="Modern Hebrew">Modern</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Reading traditions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Ashkenazi_Hebrew" title="Ashkenazi Hebrew">Ashkenazi</a></li>
<li><a href="Sephardi_Hebrew" title="Sephardi Hebrew">Sephardi</a></li>
<li><a href="Romaniote_Jews#Romaniote_Hebrew" title="Romaniote Jews">Romaniote</a></li>
<li><a href="Italian_Hebrew" title="Italian Hebrew">Italian</a></li>
<li><a href="Mizrahi_Hebrew" title="Mizrahi Hebrew">Mizrahi</a> (<span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="Syrian_Jews#Pronunciation_of_Hebrew" title="Syrian Jews">Syrian</a></span>)</li>
<li><a href="Yemenite_Hebrew" title="Yemenite Hebrew">Yemenite</a></li>
<li><a href="Samaritan_Hebrew" title="Samaritan Hebrew">Samaritan</a></li>
<li><a href="Tiberian_Hebrew" title="Tiberian Hebrew">Tiberian</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(extinct)</span></li>
<li><a href="Palestinian_vocalization" title="Palestinian vocalization">Palestinian</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(extinct)</span></li>
<li><a href="Babylonian_vocalization" title="Babylonian vocalization">Babylonian</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(extinct)</span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Orthography</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Eras</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Biblical_Hebrew_orthography" title="Biblical Hebrew orthography">Biblical</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Scripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Rashi_script" title="Rashi script">Rashi</a></li>
<li><a href="Hebrew_Braille" title="Hebrew Braille">Braille</a></li>
<li><a href="Ktav_Ashuri" title="Ktav Ashuri">Ashuri</a></li>
<li><a href="Cursive_Hebrew" title="Cursive Hebrew">Cursive</a></li>
<li><a href="Tag_(Hebrew_writing)" title="Tag (Hebrew writing)">Crowning</a></li>
<li><a href="Paleo-Hebrew_alphabet" title="Paleo-Hebrew alphabet">Paleo-Hebrew</a></li>
<li><a href="Solitreo" title="Solitreo">Solitreo</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Hebrew_alphabet" title="Hebrew alphabet">Alphabet</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Aleph" title="Aleph">Alef</a></li>
<li><a href="Bet_(letter)" title="Bet (letter)">Bet</a></li>
<li><a href="Gimel" title="Gimel">Gimel</a></li>
<li><a href="Dalet" title="Dalet">Dalet</a></li>
<li><a href="He_(letter)" title="He (letter)">Hei</a></li>
<li><a href="Waw_(letter)" title="Waw (letter)">Vav</a></li>
<li><a href="Zayin" title="Zayin">Zayin</a></li>
<li><a href="Heth" title="Heth">Ḥet</a></li>
<li><a href="Teth" title="Teth">Tet</a></li>
<li><a href="Yodh" title="Yodh">Yud</a></li>
<li><a href="Kaph" title="Kaph">Kaf</a></li>
<li><a href="Lamedh" title="Lamedh">Lamed</a></li>
<li><a href="Mem" title="Mem">Mem</a></li>
<li><a href="Nun_(letter)" title="Nun (letter)">Nun</a></li>
<li><a href="Samekh" title="Samekh">Samech</a></li>
<li><a href="Ayin" title="Ayin">Ayin</a></li>
<li><a href="Pe_(Semitic_letter)" title="Pe (Semitic letter)">Pei</a></li>
<li><a href="Tsade" title="Tsade">Tsadi</a></li>
<li><a href="Qoph" title="Qoph">Kuf</a></li>
<li><a href="Resh" title="Resh">Resh</a></li>
<li><a href="Shin_(letter)" title="Shin (letter)">Shin</a></li>
<li><a href="Taw" title="Taw">Tav</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Niqqud" title="Niqqud">Niqqud</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Tiberian_vocalization" title="Tiberian vocalization">Tiberian</a></li>
<li><a href="Babylonian_vocalization" title="Babylonian vocalization">Babylonian</a></li>
<li><a href="Palestinian_vocalization" title="Palestinian vocalization">Palestinian</a></li>
<li><a href="Samaritan_vocalization" title="Samaritan vocalization">Samaritan</a></li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="Shva" title="Shva">Shva</a></li>
<li><a href="Hiriq" title="Hiriq">Hiriq</a></li>
<li><a href="Tzere" title="Tzere">Tzere</a></li>
<li><a href="Segol" title="Segol">Segol</a></li>
<li><a href="Patach" title="Patach">Pataḥ</a></li>
<li><a href="Kamatz" title="Kamatz">Kamatz</a></li>
<li><a href="Holam" title="Holam">Holam</a></li>
<li><a href="Kubutz_and_shuruk" title="Kubutz and shuruk">Kubutz/shuruk</a></li>
<li><a href="Dagesh" title="Dagesh">Dagesh</a></li>
<li><a href="Mappiq" title="Mappiq">Mappiq</a></li>
<li><a href="Hebrew_punctuation#Hyphen_and_maqaf" title="Hebrew punctuation">Maqaf</a></li>
<li><a href="Rafe" title="Rafe">Rafe</a></li>
<li><a href="Shin_(letter)#Sin_and_Shin_dot" title="Shin (letter)">Sin/Shin dot</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Hebrew_spelling" title="Hebrew spelling">Spelling</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Ktiv_menuqad" title="Ktiv menuqad">with Niqqud</a> / <a href="Ktiv_hasar_niqqud#Ktiv_haser" title="Ktiv hasar niqqud">missing</a> / <a href="Ktiv_hasar_niqqud" title="Ktiv hasar niqqud">full</a></li>
<li><i><a href="Mater_lectionis" title="Mater lectionis">Mater lectionis</a></i></li>
<li><a href="Hebrew_abbreviations" title="Hebrew abbreviations">Abbreviations</a></li>
<li><a href="Plene_scriptum" title="Plene scriptum">Plene scriptum</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Hebrew_punctuation" title="Hebrew punctuation">Punctuation</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Hebrew_diacritics" title="Hebrew diacritics">Diacritics</a></li>
<li><a href="Meteg" title="Meteg">Meteg</a></li>
<li><a href="Hebrew_cantillation" title="Hebrew cantillation">Cantillation</a></li>
<li><a href="Geresh" title="Geresh">Geresh</a></li>
<li><a href="Gershayim" title="Gershayim">Gershayim</a></li>
<li><a href="Inverted_nun" title="Inverted nun">Inverted nun</a></li>
<li><a href="Shekel_sign" title="Shekel sign">Shekel sign</a></li>
<li><a href="Hebrew_numerals" title="Hebrew numerals">Numerals</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Phonology" title="Phonology">Phonology</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Biblical_Hebrew#Phonology" title="Biblical Hebrew">Biblical Hebrew</a></li>
<li><a href="Modern_Hebrew_phonology" title="Modern Hebrew phonology">Modern Hebrew</a></li>
<li><a href="Philippi's_law" title="Philippi's law">Philippi's law</a></li>
<li><a href="Begadkefat" title="Begadkefat">Law of attenuation</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Hebrew_language#Hebrew_grammar" title="Hebrew language">Grammar</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Biblical_Hebrew#Grammar" title="Biblical Hebrew">Biblical</a></li>
<li><a href="Modern_Hebrew_grammar" title="Modern Hebrew grammar">Modern</a></li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="Modern_Hebrew_verbs" title="Modern Hebrew verbs">Verbal morphology</a></li>
<li><a href="Semitic_root" title="Semitic root">Semitic roots</a></li>
<li><a href="Prefixes_in_Hebrew" title="Prefixes in Hebrew">Prefixes</a></li>
<li><a href="Suffixes_in_Hebrew" title="Suffixes in Hebrew">Suffixes</a></li>
<li><a href="Vav-consecutive" title="Vav-consecutive">Vav-consecutive</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Academic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Revival_of_the_Hebrew_language" title="Revival of the Hebrew language">Revival</a></li>
<li><a href="Academy_of_the_Hebrew_Language" title="Academy of the Hebrew Language">Academy</a></li>
<li><a href="Study_of_the_Hebrew_language" title="Study of the Hebrew language">Study</a></li>
<li><a href="Ulpan" title="Ulpan">Ulpan</a></li>
<li><a href="Hebrew_keyboard" title="Hebrew keyboard">Keyboard</a></li>
<li><a href="Hebrew_literature" title="Hebrew literature">Hebrew</a> / <a href="Ancient_Hebrew_writings" title="Ancient Hebrew writings">ancient</a> / <a href="Israeli_literature" title="Israeli literature">modern Israeli</a> literature</li>
<li><a href="Hebrew_name" title="Hebrew name">Names</a></li>
<li><a href="Hebraization_of_surnames" title="Hebraization of surnames">Surnames</a></li>
<li><a href="Unicode_and_HTML_for_the_Hebrew_alphabet" title="Unicode and HTML for the Hebrew alphabet">Unicode and HTML</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Reference works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="Gesenius-Kautsch-Cowley" class="mw-redirect" title="Gesenius-Kautsch-Cowley">Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Wilhelm_Gesenius" title="Wilhelm Gesenius">Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Brown%E2%80%93Driver%E2%80%93Briggs" title="Brown–Driver–Briggs">Brown–Driver–Briggs</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Strong's_Concordance" title="Strong's Concordance">Strong's Concordance</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Hebrew_and_Aramaic_Lexicon_of_the_Old_Testament" title="Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament">Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament</a></i></li></ul>
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