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  • From: lder <lder AT chello.nl>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Pronunciation and Genesis 2:7
  • Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:19:37 +0200


At 09:33:42 -0400, Yigal Levin wrote:
>
> At 05:53 PM 8/24/2002 -0700, frater three wrote:

>> 2)The right pronunciation of WYHY is "vayehy" or "vayhy"? I know a shewa
>> is pronounced after a closed syllable and it's not pronounced after an open
>> syllable, so this pronunciation should be "vayhy".
>
> You are correct in theory, but the shewa` nah is sometimes difficult to
> (not) pronounce before a guttural.

Besides the shewa quiescens, of which you speak here, there is also the
shewa mobile and that's the shewa I suspect we're dealing with here (the
shewa representing the original /a/).

regards,
Levina de Ruijter






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