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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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Pronunciation and Genesis 2:7,
frater three, 08/24/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: Pronunciation and Genesis 2:7, Trevor & Julie Peterson, 08/25/2002
- Re: Pronunciation and Genesis 2:7, Yigal Levin, 08/26/2002
- Re: Pronunciation and Genesis 2:7, lder, 08/26/2002
- Re: Pronunciation and Genesis 2:7, Shai Heijmans, 08/26/2002
- Re: Pronunciation and Genesis 2:7, Bearpecs, 08/26/2002
- Re: Pronunciation and Genesis 2:7, Bearpecs, 08/28/2002
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