Talk:ن ط ق

One or two roots?

Do we have evidence that we are dealing with a single root here?

I personally believe there are really two homophonous roots /n-t̻-q/:

1. speak, pronounce, talk, question, eloquent, logic, rational…;
2. belt, girdle, zone, area, district…

Instead, the two sets of meanings are currently all mixed up as if there were a single entry. And the general definition is a far-fetched, unconvincing attempt at capturing the two sets of meanings under a single vague meaning (“Related to delineation and demarcation (of words, concepts, zones, clothes...)”) — yet that is highly unlikely. In no language can speak be equated with delineate (with) words; sorry but this does not make sense.

Unfortunately, various lexicographic resources which I've consulted show the same flaw, of not distinguishing homophony from polysemy, and mixing up all meanings indicriminately: Diccionario arabe-espanol avanzado, Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (1876), etc.

And yet, I believe it would be better lexicographic practice to distinguish two homophonous roots /n-t̻-q/ as two separate entries.
— Womtelo (talk) 23:22, 15 August 2020 (UTC).