Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

What we hear and what we don't hear is a very delicate issue and I  
will not argue it with you. I think there IS a brief natural actual  
doubling of the B of DIBER as we enter it from I and leave it into E,  
at least the way I pronounce Hebrew. Such doubling occurs also in ) 
IMI, 'my mother', )ABI, 'my father', )AXI, 'my brother', even though  
only )IMI contains a dagesh.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Feb 23, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Uri Hurwitz wrote:

>      Apparently you did not check the elementary Arabic grammar as
>  I suggested.
>      Further, surely BU has an Arab -English dictionary, and possibly
>  also an Arab-Hebrew one. Look them up, if you know the script.
>
>     Youv'e also stated later: "Notice that no doubling may occur in
>  DIBRAH, 'she spoke'."
>
>     Since your statement may mislead some, it  needs to be pointed
>  out that in neither 'DIBER' nor 'DIBRAH' is  the Bet emphasized or
>  doubled in normal speech.
>
>
>    Uri Hurwitz                                            Great  
> Neck,  NY
>
>
>    <The Arabic Shadda is not the Hebrew dagesh XAZAQ.
>
> Isaac Fried>
>
> On Feb 23, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Uri Hurwitz wrote:
>
> >       Why don't you pick up an elementary Arabic grammar, and
> >   check if it has a " dagesh XAZAQ ", and whether or not it is
> > changes pronounciation of a letter?
> >      Hint: it is called 'shaadah', from 'shadid'.
> >
> >     Uri Hurwitz                                         Great  
> > Neck, NY
>
>
>
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