In Hebrew: 'Airshow'

מַטָּס If you were in Israel early yesterday afternoon, you probably heard and saw fighter jets flying overhead. The makers of Modern Hebrew took the root ט.ו.ס - t.w.s - meaning flying and plugged it into a noun structure beginning with a מ (m), yielding the common word for airplane, מָטוֹס. It's the same noun structure as that of מָקוֹם - place, which also comes from a root whose middle letter is ו (w) - ק.ו.מ (k.w.m). To create the word for airshow, Hebrew plugs מטוס into another noun structure, with מַטָּס as the resulting word. Note that the same word-change (morphological) process takes place to create the word for flotilla: Hebrew takes the word for oar or paddle - מָשׁוֹט, plugs it into that other noun structure, and מַשָּׁטis born. Visit Ktzat Ivrit.