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[b-hebrew] Evidence for three-syllables in the Tetragrammaton (was Re: [Can theophopric names with Yeho prefixes be derived from Yehovah or maybe from Yehowah or maybe from "Yahweh"?)

From: Garth Grenache <garthgrenache AT hotmail.com>
To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [b-hebrew] Evidence for three-syllables in the Tetragrammaton (was Re: [Can theophopric names with Yeho prefixes be derived from Yehovah or maybe from Yehowah or maybe from "Yahweh"?)
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 10:40:05 +1000

One has suggested that Yho- and -yahu represent
the first two of three supposed syllables in YHWH.
This suggestion seems to ignore that long o: can come
from semivowel-vowel combinations
such as -aw- in yawm > yom
and -wa- in 'achwat > 'achot.
Also, what vowel fills this proposed middle syllable?
Yeho-'s 'o:', or -yahu's 'u:'?
Choose either of these, and how did the other come about?

Another has shown that the second vowel of the theophorics
needn't preceed the 'w':
Yahwo could become yaho: or yahu:
Is it by loss of the final o that Yahwo could become yahu: ?

I suggest that
Yahwa- -> Yho:-
-yahw- + u (case marker) -> -yahu:

This explains the regularity of the difference in the vowels of Yho- and
-yahu.

Garth Grenache,
Australia.

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[b-hebrew] Evidence for three-syllables in the Tetragrammaton (was Re: [Can theophopric names with Yeho prefixes be derived from Yehovah or maybe from Yehowah or maybe from "Yahweh"?), Garth Grenache, 07/02/2010