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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Piel Participles of ayin-waw-yod
  • Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 13:05:31 -0400

I really want to understand this. Are you saying that the dagesh in, say, the word GUMAC (גומץ Eccl. 10:8) has (or had) a phonemic function?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Oct 31, 2010, at 7:18 AM, Randall Buth wrote:

That's what happens when languages have phonemic change.
Same thing happened to Greek about 2200 years ago.

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
"Dropped out"? Just like that? And no one missing it?
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Oct 30, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Randall Buth wrote:

Length has dropped out of Hebrew dialects today




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