Talk:alkali

Is this Arabic translation right? Ultimateria (talk) 20:07, 26 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Indeed the word in this vocalization exists,, so Almaany, so vocalizes Nabil Osman in his German-Arabic dictionary (2015) under Alkali as well as alkalisch, i. e. both for noun and adjective. Ahmad Mukhtar Umar gives both and  on various places, Wehr gives only , as adjective and a plural  meaning a noun-sense “bases”. I am unsure what the pronunciation  could derive from – possibly from a  mentioned in Wehr, with a linking  as ; there are a lot of newer formations with that wāw interfix lacking in Wehr, like . Or it is a phono-semantic matching of the European, the word being under pressure to have this /kal/ syllable like it sounds everywhere else. Fay Freak (talk) 20:34, 26 August 2018 (UTC)