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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] consonant vowel order of )EHYEH & YAHWEH
  • Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:10:54 -0500

I will add to this, how do we know that the waw in the
name is not a matere lectionis? Why is it always read
as a consonant?

That it is a matere lectionis when used as part of a name
be a clue that it is not a consonant in the name as well?

Karl W. Randolph.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Read, James C" <K0434995 AT kingston.ac.uk>
>
> No, you're not wrong. Maybe you should reread the post in the context of the
> discussion. We had mentioned a theory of how proto-semitic consisted of only
> CV syllables. To which I added the theory that syllables did not contain any
> schewa vowels but that they crept in as a metter of laziness in
> pronunciation.
> As the original theoretical proto-semitic contained only CV
> syllables, where we
> see CVCCV must have originally been CVCVCV and so the natural transition
> would have been from full vowel to vocal schewa to silent schewa.
>
> I hope this clears up the intentions of my last post.

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