ABJAD tri-consonantal or tri-literal
The tri-consonantal logogram kpr is a tri-literal, a verb that represents the idea of the 'life force in time and space'
An abjad is a type of writing system in which each symbol stands for a consonant; the reader must supply the appropriate vowel. The name abjad itself derives from the Arabic word for alphabet. This term was suggested by Peter T. Daniels to replace the more common term consonantal alphabet or syllabary that refer to the family of scripts called West Semitic.
A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent syllables, which make up words.
A symbol in a syllabary typically represents an optional consonant sound followed by a vowel sound.
A grapheme is a logogram, or logograph represents a word or a morpheme (the smallest meaningful unit of language). Logograms are commonly known also as "ideograms" or "hieroglyphs". Strictly speaking, ideograms represent ideas more directly than a word.
Whether or not a word is divided on all available morphemes is debatable. Some morphologists decompose the words completely as it was formed etymologically; others only decompose what there is evidence to decompose in the modern use of that word.
I decompose the word completely because there is always evidence as to what the fundamental meaning of a sound/phoneme and or a symbol/sign might be.
There is logical thought and action behind every phonem and combination there of. A morpheme is the smallest meaningful component of word, or other linguistic unit of language, that has semantic meaning. The concept of word and morpheme are different, a morpheme may or may not stand alone.One or several morphemes could compose a word.
A morpheme is free if it can stand alone, or bound if it is used exclusively alongside a free morpheme. Its actual phonetic representation is the morph.
The root of a word is the primary lexical unit of a word, (noun or verb.) A root is called a base word and carries the fundamental and significant aspects of semantic content . A root cannot be reduced into any smaller constituents, it is a unit . Content words in nearly all languages contain, and may consist only of, root morphemes.
The traditional definition allows a root to be either a free morphem or bound morphem. Root morphemes are essential for affixation and compounds, mostly verbs.
The root of a word is a fundamental unit with meaning (morpheme) and, as such, it is an element within a compound word/logos. It can stand on its own as does every consonant. Imagin the symbolic transmission of a letter like S for flow and B for break as in break through, or the letter A as in two lines united by a third.
The roots of verbs and most nouns in the Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or "radicals" (hence also the term consonantal root). Such abstract consonantal roots are used in the derivation of actual words by adding if found necessary the vowels and non-root consonants (or "transfixes") which go with a particular morphological category around the root consonants, generally following specific patterns. It is said to be a peculiarity of Semitic linguistics that a large majority of these consonantal roots are triliterals. Given that a verb cant be formed with less then three moments, this makes good sense. There are a number of quadriliterals which ground the verb as in a diterminative and biliterals which are diads in nature that define a a polar opposition or duality. .
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