Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

Randall Buth: 

 [Wayyisa meshalo wayomer]
 
 "Note well: the fem. singular suffix is -a. The "-h" was never pronounced.
The older form of the singular suffix was *-at, which is why the
poss.pron. have
a 't' with them."

  Compare colloquial Arabic usage which is like Hebrew, to the standard 
classic Arabic used to to this day that retains this aspect of Proto-Semitic.

 Ezov haqqyr,

 Uri Hurwitz                                    Great Neck, NY