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Re: [b-hebrew] Is the yod in "Yisrael" a Hebrew vowel letter?

From: Pere Casanellas <pere.casanellas AT btlink.net>
To: David P Donnelly <davedonnelly1 AT juno.com>, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Is the yod in "Yisrael" a Hebrew vowel letter?
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 10:35:14 +0100

According to the Grammar of Joüon translated by Muraoka (par. 26.2), "Word-initial yod + hireq, properly 'yi', seems to have been pronounced simply as 'i', at least in certain schools, an so in Contemporary Israeli Hebrew." See the name Yishay written with initial aleph instead of yod in 1Cr 2,13. This grammar also quotes Quimhi.

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At 16:06 28/02/2004 -0500, David P Donnelly wrote:

Is the yod in "Yisrael"
[yod-Hireq-Sin-Shewa-Resh-Qamets-Aleph-Tsere-Lamedh]
a Hebrew vowel letter?

Dave
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Re: [b-hebrew] Is the yod in "Yisrael" a Hebrew vowel letter?, Pere Casanellas, 03/01/2004