Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David P Donnelly <davedonnelly1 AT juno.com>]

Trevor Peterson said:

>>>
If this yod were a vowel letter, it could not be  followed by a vowel.
>>>

Dave says:

Is the "Y" sound of "Yisrael" pronounced by Hebrew speaking persons,
who live in the country that English speaking persons refer to as Israel?
  




On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:21:59 -0500 Trevor Peterson <06peterson AT cua.edu>
writes:
> David P Donnelly wrote:
> > 
> > Is the yod in "Yisrael" 
> > [yod-Hireq-Sin-Shewa-Resh-Qamets-Aleph-Tsere-Lamedh] 
> > a Hebrew vowel letter?
> 
> No. The only vowel letter that ever appears word-initially is the 
> u-form 
> of the conjunction. If this yod were a vowel letter, it could not be 
> 
> followed by a vowel.
> 
> Trevor Peterson
> CUA/Semitics
> 
> 
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David P Donnelly wrote:

> Is the "Y" sound of "Yisrael" pronounced by Hebrew speaking persons,
> who live in the country that English speaking persons refer to as Israel?

That is my understanding, although I am not one of them. (I know it is 
pronounced in Yiddish, but that's probably not terribly helpful.) I 
suspect that we have some on this list, though, who could comment more 
intelligently.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics