Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 27/09/2004 16:47, VC wrote:

> ...
>
> > ut here is an example: yedkem, with two
> > tseres, from yad + -kem.
> >    
> No good. We discuss two segols, not two tzeres.
>
>  
This form has two segols. See Genesis 9:2 etc.

But most of our disagreement seems to be about speculative 
reconstructions. We have e.g.

X > melek, X-i > malki
Y > neged, Y-i > negdi
Z > beged, Z-i > bigdi

We can't be sure exactly what the vowels are in X, Y and Z. But we can 
suggest that either they were different vowels or else there must be 
some good reason why the attested suffixed forms are different. I don't 
think it is sufficient to say that X, Y and Z all had segol, but we 
can't say much more than that.


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