According to Ghil'ad Zuckermann, "Israeli" (Modern Hebrew) has many verbs that follow the Indo-European "Ablaut" rather than the Semitic "transfixation". For example, the Israeli verbs השפריץ "ishpríts" "splashed (masculine 3rd person singular)" and השפרצתי "ishprátsti" "splashed (masculine 1st person singular)" are based "not" on a root *"sh.p.r.ts." but rather on the stem "shpr⌂ts", which is traceable back to the Yiddish שפריץ "shprits", which means "splash, spout, squirt" (see German "Spritz"). Zuckermann argues that "shpr⌂ts" is similar to Indo-European stems such as English "s⌂ng" (as in "sing-sang-song-sung") and German "spr⌂ch" "speak" (as in "spricht-sprechen-sprach-gesprochen-Spruch").