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  • From: MarianneLuban AT aol.com
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: PS /g/
  • Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:13:40 EST

In a message dated 11/16/2004 9:54:19 PM Pacific Standard Time,
leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il writes:


> There is absolutely no proof that Samekh ever had anything other than an
> /s/
> sound, though it was obviously different originally (in early Canaanite)
> than Sin.

In the orthography, samekh was written very many times with Egyptian /T/, a
grapheme of unknown value, which later became interchangeable with Egyptian
/t/
and lost its original sound. I can't swear to the accuracy of this, but it
may be that /T/ once had the value of the Castilian vocalization of the c in
Barcelona as "Barthelona". Not quite the same as the English dipthong
"th"--but
something near.




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