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  • From: David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Any meaning to the Dagesh?
  • Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:55:59 +1100


Dear John,

You can't go putting forth examples such as the ones below as disproving the fact that the definite article in BH is /haC-/ before firstly understanding the phonetic conditioning surrounding the realisation of the /haC-/ morpheme. Please either accept that the morpheme /haC-/ has several phonologically conditioned allomorphs [haC-], [ha-], and [he-] or set forth a more convincing arguement as to why you assert that the definite article in BH is not /haC-/ but rather /ha-/.

Regards,
David Kummerow.


You said that the mark indicating the article HE is the dagesh.
This isn't so - as the following examples show (Note that I didn't even
have to go beyond Genesis to find a bunch of them):

Inter. HE and dagesh in second syllable.
gn17:17,8 <HA/L.:/BEN>
gn18:21,4 <HA/K.:/CA(:AQFT/FH.>
gn37:32,13 < HA/K.:TONET>

Article HE and no dagesh in second syllable.
gn2:12,3 <HA/HIW)>
gn7:4,16 <HA/Y:QW.M>
gn14:10,2 <HA/&ID.IYM>
gn15:10,15 <HA/CIP.OR>
gn30:41,5 <HA/M:QU$.FROWT>


So again, if you remove the dagesh mark from the word in the <H:A/$OM"R>
vs <HA/$.OM"R> no translational data would be lost.

Are there any examples where it would - especially on the word part that
the dagesh appears?

B"H
John Steven





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