Talk:بطيخ

baṭṭīḵ instead of biṭṭīḵ
Just saying it again more explicitly: biṭṭīḵ seems like a typical hyperregularization to me, for as the early descendants as well as the possible etymons show it was in the beginning, like  was  in the beginning, and like  is obviously borrowed as  and so pronounced in every single dialect, the same presumably with. Other clear examples include  which is regularized to and  which is regularized to, both showing the /a/ in the etymon. Dialects indeed tend to lower combinations KuLMūQ and KiLMīq to KaLMūQ and KaLMīq as for example the original is  instead in dialects, but  does not seem to be one of the cases, and it is rather that it is a feature of dialect to regularize the patterns KuLMūQ and KiLMīq, namely those specific Old Arabic dialects from which Classical Arabic has arisen. Sometimes this can lead to “dictionary-only pronunciations”, perhaps belongs to this category. we could use qualifiers for vocalizations and plurals, lest forms get removed by purists, compare the edit history of. Fay Freak (talk) 15:12, 30 August 2018 (UTC)