Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>]

Yes, I thought of these cases, which include the very common WAY:HIY.
Actually I meant to change the first line to waw-patah-consonant other
than aleph..., as that is what I discovered when looking through the
database. Almost all of the ambiguous cases are waw-patah-aleph...,
although this normally becomes waw-qamets-aleph... in the preterite.

Peter Kirk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trevor & Julie Peterson [mailto:06peterson AT cua.edu]
> Sent: 24 May 2002 20:19
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: RE: Preterite and Imperfect
> 
> Peter wrote:
> 
> > Trevor, are there actually any cases which don't fit the following
> > formula?
> >
> > Waw-patah-consonant-dagesh... = preterite
> > Waw-qamets-aleph... = preterite (qamets is compensatory lengthening)
> > Waw-patah-aleph... = imperfect
> > Waw-schwa/hireq... = imperfect
> 
> What about cases where the dagesh drops from yod (mostly D(p) stems, I
> would
> guess)?
> 
> Trevor Peterson
> CUA/Semitics
> 
> 
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