of logicizing and etymologizing, of which we shall see other examples later, at the fatal cost of ignoring the obvious semantic value of the word in the contexts where it occurs. The sense ‘made into a fourness’ is a purely theoretical product, worked out from the theoretical sense of the ‘verb stem rbʿ’ (which does not occur except in the participle-type forms we are discussing) as ‘make into a fourness’. In the contexts where it is found it is quite impossible to apply ‘made into a fourness’ as