Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Raymond de Hoop <rdehoop AT keyaccess.nl>]

Title: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: YERUSHALEM

At 30-12-2002 00:41 Trevor & Julie Peterson <06peterson AT cua.edu> wrote:

> The Hebrew dual ending comes from -aym-; this diphthong was always lost in
> BH, either contracted to long e or extended to ayi, with the stress on a.
> Yes, the dual is one common place where this diphthong would have occurred,
> but it is by no means the only. If there's any reliability to the notion
> that m is part of the stem, then it seems to me that this being a dual
> ending is an unacceptable option.

Shalom Trevor,

I would not dare to say I 've the solution to these questions. But aren't you suggesting that there is a diphtong ayi, where did they leave the "yod" in the consonantal YRW$LM, and did it belong to the stem? I do agree with you that the "mem" is part of the stem, but how did the Masoretes arive at the dual pronunciation "ayim"? 

Kol tuv,
Raymond 

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