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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hebrew pronunciation etc. (again!)
  • Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:26:35 +0000

On 06/01/2007 19:57, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
...
Compare Ibn Ezra's Tsaxut which states:
And the noted scholar (Hayyuj) said that the Tiberians would read the
mobile schewa if a yod follows, with the vowel of hiriq as in יֶחְזְיָהוּ
(yɛxziyɔhu) יִרְמְיָהוּ (yirmiyɔhu) ...

I think you mean that they would read yɛxiziyɔhu, yirimiyɔhu. Well, the Greek and Latin version of the latter name, and the English "Jeremiah", tend to confirm that there should be a vowel between the resh and the mem.

... and the schewa which is followed by a big
qamats (ie, qamats) as in בְּרָכָה שְׁמָרִים as a hataf patax
(=barɔkɔ, $amɔrim)
that is, a schewa with a patax, and if after the mobile schewa there is one
of the letters alef,het,het,ayin which are the guttural letters, the schewa is
always as the vowel which follows such as (2 Kings 10:10) דְעוּ אפוא the
dalet is to be read as a shuruq ("du(u") and in the word דְּעִי as if
it is with
a hiriq ("di(i") and in דְּעֶה as if it is with a small patax (ie, segol).

Doesn't the last part of this imply that the qamats gadol in words like בְּרָכָה שְׁמָרִים (your barɔkɔ, $amɔrim) is closer to a hataf patax than to a hataf qamats, therefore that it is more of an "a" than an "o" and different in quality from qamats qatan?


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Peter Kirk
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