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Dear #Semitics folks.

I’d be grateful for some help with some nominal patterns.

Hebrew has a whole bunch of qiṭṭēl-shaped adjectives which describe physical conditions, often defects.

Examples include pissēaḥ = ‘lame’,

gibbēaḥ = ‘bald’,

ḥerēš = ‘deaf’,
ʔiṭṭēr = ‘left-handed’,

ʕiwwēr = ‘blind’,

piqqēaḥ = ‘well-sighted’, and

gibbēn = ‘hump-backed’.

Quite a few more turn up in Mishnaic Hebrew, e.g.,

qiṭṭēaʕ = ‘without a hand/foot’,

giddēm = ‘without a hand’,

ṣimmēaʕ/ṣimmēm = ‘with misshapen ears’,
ʕiqqēl = ‘clubfooted’, and

ḥiggēr = ‘lame’.

These sorts of conditions/defects form a well known type of personal name/nickname, which is attested all over the ANE.
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