suffixes. Because the colour terms *פָרֹד, שָחֹר, אָדֹם follow the pattern pa-c-ol we are relatively certain, even without previous lexical or contextual information, that they are nominals, for the membership of verbal lexemes in a category that follows the same pattern is restricted to a small group—שָכֹל קָטֹן, יָגֹר, יָכֹל—of the Qal formation. Hence, at least a certain amount of information—the syntactical ‘meaning’, the clue to the possible ways according to which a given lexeme might function