Biblical Hebrew Forum

[MarianneLuban AT aol.com]

In a message dated 11/16/2004 10:14:17 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
MarianneLuban AT aol.com writes:


> 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.
> _______________________________________________

I suppose it would be helpful to give som examples.  "sofer", scribe, written 
in Egyptian as "TwpAir". "suf", reed, "Twf" or "Twfy".