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  • From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:42:44 +0000

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
wrote:

> Possibly, the Sade
> caused the p in the first syllable to become emphatic. In other words, in
> special cases where aspirated [pʰ] was postvocalic, and in the same syllable
> as [sˤ], we had [pʰ] > [pˤ]. In turn, the Greeks transcribed it with
> a pi instead
> of phi, just like emphatic k (quf) and t (teth) were transliterated
> with a kappa
> and tau, and not chi and theta.

... giving [sˤipˤpʰoran] and [sˤipˤpʰori], respectively.

Yitzhak Sapir



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