Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>]

> From: Henry Churchyard <churchyh AT ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
> To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: -aykhi ending, Psalms 103, 116

> 2nd.fem.sg suffix in general was originally -kii, but original -ay-
> usually monophthongizes in oenvironements like this...  Also, this
> ending only appears in two passages where the fem.sg. "you" being
> addressed is the soul.

I would say there's some interesting dialectology left to be done on
the psalms. nonstandard and conservative, interesting.

>        Psalms 103:3     l AT khol-tah.a~luu'aaykhii 
>        Psalms 103:3               `a~woonaaykhii (some manuscripts)
>        Psalms 103:4                 h.ayyaaykhii 
>        Psalms 103:5                n@`uuraaykhii 
>        Psalms 116:7              limnuuh.aaykhii 
>        Psalms 116:7                  `aalaaykhii

-ay- doesn't always simplify: 1s -ay-y, 3ms -aw-w < -ay-w,
and also 2fs -ay-ik. conclusion, no simplification when double
linking; and ending is /-iki/, crucially glide flanking /k/.

therefore, when a longer archaising /-ikii/ is attached, -ay-ykii is
the result. the qametz should reduce to pathah when not in major
pause.

V 
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