midneb
Maltese edit
| Root |
|---|
| d-n-b |
| 3 terms |
Etymology edit
From Arabic مُذْنِب (muḏnib, “sinner, wrongdoer”). The plural midinbin is regular: The unstressed -e- is deleted, yielding *midnbin, where the -n- needs an epenthetic -i- because sonorants cannot stand between two other consonants. Compare the same in mislem, misilmin.