ssm "to guide"
sjh "to release"
s'h "to glorify"
shr "to throw down"
shd "to illumine"
143 occurrences
58 occurrences
38 occurrences
34 occurrences
24 occurrences
srd "to cause to grow" 12 occurrences
smn "to make firm"
sd> "to travel"
sjp "to examine"
srs "to awaken"
s'q "to cause to enter"
sgr "to make silent"
107 occurrences
40 occurrences
35 occurrences
20 occurrences
15 occurrences
10 occurrences
Causative verbs of lower frequency have been left in the list as they are. For many
of these, the decision as to whether initial 5- is a causative morpheme or not would
have been difficult to make.
In the following, each of the 24 transcription symbols which we distinguished are listed
together with their token-frequency (number of occurrences of the relevant letter in the
database) and its type-frequency (number of different lexical entries in the database
which contain the letter). If a letter appears more than once in a word, this only affects
the counting of tokens (e.g. each occurrence of the word m>> is counted as two tokens with
respect to the consonant >, but this is still only one type). We counted separately how
often each consonant occurs as the first, the second, and the third consonant in a word.
cons.
sum
token type
1st
token
type
2nd
token
type
3rd
token
type
i
0751
446
2493
±33
567
47
6691
279
n
g6o6
517
3S5°
166
4782
342
1274
146
r
7695
244
1800
41
2431
107
3464
110
w
7363
524
a&S
i3o
1719
117
3l29
295
1
5506
480
232
38
3oi7
271
2257
187
m
5007
3oi
19l8
105
1391
107
1698
92
s
4520
454
3oo3
307
1072
99
445
77
h
3633
273
1916
A5
895
^S
822
84
h
343a
2tj3
1820
100
787
67
825
43
C
33o8
189
i3o2
89
9o3
61
no3
52
d
3165
155
.«7
52
*9S&
53
6^3
55
P
2890
*59
1245
59
1011
52
634
50
L
2679
n3
668
54
1790
34
221
3o
t
2400
195
238
42
1298
92
864
76
k
2359
90
297
3i
423
43
1639
21
b
1978
248
363
54
1099
119
616
76
d
1782
186
424
56
997
72
36i
65
z
l379
85
743
44
501
3i
i3s
±2
f
1201
95
307
16
462
42
432
38
s
1102
i63
749
81
226
52
127
34
h
976
75
870
34
106
42
0
O
1
728
98
388
48
187
26
i.tf
34
h
512
3,5
192
25
121
6
199
4
z
464
70
322
3a
72
»5
70
23
1
83436
27812
27812
27812
296
sjh "to release"
s'h "to glorify"
shr "to throw down"
shd "to illumine"
143 occurrences
58 occurrences
38 occurrences
34 occurrences
24 occurrences
srd "to cause to grow" 12 occurrences
smn "to make firm"
sd> "to travel"
sjp "to examine"
srs "to awaken"
s'q "to cause to enter"
sgr "to make silent"
107 occurrences
40 occurrences
35 occurrences
20 occurrences
15 occurrences
10 occurrences
Causative verbs of lower frequency have been left in the list as they are. For many
of these, the decision as to whether initial 5- is a causative morpheme or not would
have been difficult to make.
In the following, each of the 24 transcription symbols which we distinguished are listed
together with their token-frequency (number of occurrences of the relevant letter in the
database) and its type-frequency (number of different lexical entries in the database
which contain the letter). If a letter appears more than once in a word, this only affects
the counting of tokens (e.g. each occurrence of the word m>> is counted as two tokens with
respect to the consonant >, but this is still only one type). We counted separately how
often each consonant occurs as the first, the second, and the third consonant in a word.
cons.
sum
token type
1st
token
type
2nd
token
type
3rd
token
type
i
0751
446
2493
±33
567
47
6691
279
n
g6o6
517
3S5°
166
4782
342
1274
146
r
7695
244
1800
41
2431
107
3464
110
w
7363
524
a&S
i3o
1719
117
3l29
295
1
5506
480
232
38
3oi7
271
2257
187
m
5007
3oi
19l8
105
1391
107
1698
92
s
4520
454
3oo3
307
1072
99
445
77
h
3633
273
1916
A5
895
^S
822
84
h
343a
2tj3
1820
100
787
67
825
43
C
33o8
189
i3o2
89
9o3
61
no3
52
d
3165
155
.«7
52
*9S&
53
6^3
55
P
2890
*59
1245
59
1011
52
634
50
L
2679
n3
668
54
1790
34
221
3o
t
2400
195
238
42
1298
92
864
76
k
2359
90
297
3i
423
43
1639
21
b
1978
248
363
54
1099
119
616
76
d
1782
186
424
56
997
72
36i
65
z
l379
85
743
44
501
3i
i3s
±2
f
1201
95
307
16
462
42
432
38
s
1102
i63
749
81
226
52
127
34
h
976
75
870
34
106
42
0
O
1
728
98
388
48
187
26
i.tf
34
h
512
3,5
192
25
121
6
199
4
z
464
70
322
3a
72
»5
70
23
1
83436
27812
27812
27812
296