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  • From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjbodin AT sirius.com>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Cc: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: YHWH vs. Yahweh
  • Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:47:45 -0700


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On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:54:15 -0500, Gregory and Carol Yeager wrote:

> As for the Waw, I always wondered what it was about waw that makes it a
> matres lectionis for both U and O. My mouth sort of forms the same
> shape for both, but that doesn't help me with a consonantal idea. Was
> it a liquid consonant?

Waw is not a liquid consonant; my understanding, subject to correction
by those more expert, is that waw represents a diphthong. Diphthongs
function in many languages as consonants. English "w", for example, is
a diphthong and often functions as a consonant.

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