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RIVKA:
 
i can't recall (and i can't check now), but does non-tiberian vocalization 
have a meteg?
 
kol tuv,
ari kinsberg
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> From: yodan AT yodanco.com> To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 
> 2008 08:43:03 -0800> Subject: [b-hebrew] meteg> > I'm not sure if this is 
> the kind of question that is of interest to this> group, but perhaps some 
> of you know the answer.> > > > I'd like to find out if anyone knows the 
> origin of (who started using it),> or reason for (the relationship between 
> the actual meaning and its use in> reading the Biblical text), of the term 
> "meteg". > > > > To the best of my knowledge, it wasn't used by the 
> Masoretes who "gave us"> the meteg, which they called ga'ya (literally, 
> "mooing", meaning raising the> voice). Other names for the same trope are 
> ma'amid (making it stand in its> place) and ma'arikh (prolonging). > > > > 
> Meteg has been and is continued to be used by Ashkenazim and is also in> 
> modern Hebrew. But does anyone know how this term started being used? > > > 
> > While the names "ga'ya", "ma'amid", and "ma'arikh" allude to the> 
> role/function of what is also called "meteg", the reason for the name 
> meteg> is less obvious to me. > > > > In the Tanakh, a meteg (Proverb 26:3 
> ) means "bridle" that's used for a> donkey. > > > > Does anyone know 
> (preferably providing references, if possible) if a meteg> is called meteg 
> because:> > - It looks like the little metal bar that (according to Even> 
> Shoshan's dictionary) is placed on the harness or whatever a donkey-driver> 
> places on a donkey? (so it's just a matter of the shape?)> > OR> > - Its 
> role in Torah-reading is somehow related to "harnessing" or> "guiding" or 
> whatever a bridle does to a donkey?> > > > Perhaps there are other reasons 
> for the name meteg. > > > > Thanks in advance,> > > > Rivka Sherman-Gold> > 
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