Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 13/12/2004 17:13, Vadim Cherny wrote:

> ...
>
> While not impossible, lmo and lamo being the same lemma is unlikely. First,
> schwa expanding into full kamatz is too much. Normally, pausal forms see
> expansion of either short or the reduced vowels, ...

I don't think the facts support this. According to GKC 29m,n the 
following pausal changes occur from sheva to qamats:

QF+:LFH > QF+F^LFH
$IM:(W. > $:MF^(W.
):ANIY > )F^NIY

In fact what is happening in such cases is that the pausal form retains 
the full vowel which is lost when the stress shifts off it in the 
non-pausal form.

> ... while schwa in lmo is more
> or less original. ...

What is your evidence for this statement? It can hardly be parsed as 
regular l- plus a root mo, because there is no root mo.

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