Four room house equal and there was no hierarchy to the space. The four-room house was unlike the typical Canaanite-Phoenician dwelling, which had a layout where some rooms could be entered only by passing through other rooms, hence showing a hierarchy of access. Through archaeological excavations and anthropological studies, it is possible to report on building materials and possible methods used in the construction of the Israelite four-room houses. The Iron I four-room houses typically measured ten to twelve meters long and eight to ten meters wide. The floor plan consists of three axial rooms, connected by one “broadroom" at the rear of
Compound (linguistics) "foot" and "path"—or they may belong to different parts of speech, as in the case of the English word "blackbird", composed of the adjective "black" and the noun "bird". With very few exceptions, English compound words are stressed on their first component stem. The process occurs readily in other Germanic languages for different reasons. Words can be concatenated both to mean the same as the sum of two words (e.g. "Pressekonferenz"—German for press conference) or where an adjective and noun are compounded (e.g. "hvidvinsglas"—Danish for white wine glass). The addition of affix morphemes to words (such as suffixes or prefixes,