[b-hebrew] Study on energic nun ter
David Kummerow
farmerjoeblo at hotmail.com
Sun Dec 2 20:07:52 EST 2007
> Pere,
>
> Do you really believe that the ancient Hebrews had something that we
> are compelled to fancifully call today "energic nun"?
Yes -- but I'd drop the words "are compelled to fancifully".
> You are saying
> that this nun is inserted.
Don't know what you mean by "inserted". If you mean something like that
energic nun is a morpheme which is gradually dying out in BH and it is
consequently somewhat "optional", then yes, it is inserted.
> But is it not the reverse, namely, that this
> nun was there in the first place and then over time dropped out of the
> form?
Yes, the morpheme was there and was gradually dying out.
Should we then mark and call the vacated spot "the dropped
> energic nun fault line", or something else to this effect?
>
No, of course not.
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
>
>
Regards,
David Kummerow.
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