Dictionary of Hebrew Nouns: 14,000 Hebrew nouns and adjectives classified into 998 patterns, with grammatical information

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.