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  • From: George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Any meaning to the Dagesh?
  • Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:23:13 +1100

To back up David Kummerow on this one, if you do some comparative
linguistics, particularly with Arabic, it is possible that the gemination
which is part of the Hebrew article is, in fact, an assimilation of lamed.
That is, it could be that the Hebrew article is /Hal-/. The problem is, we
have no way of being sure about this in Hebrew, because the article never
appears on its own without articulating a substantive of some kind. However,
the Arabic parallel is suggestive. The consonant /lam/ in Arabic is often run
into the following consonant, producing an effective gemination of that
consonant.



Regards,

GEORGE ATHAS
Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
www.moore.edu.au





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