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  • From: Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] dagesh
  • Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:11:40 -0700 (PDT)




<4. I am still waiting to see a good "proof", within the Hebrew
language, for an earlier existence of this spoken "gemination" (no
Arabic, please).


Isaac Fried, Boston University>



Why don't you look at the declensions of Bat (daughter)
with the dagesh forte in the Tav. Then ask yourself why
the Masoretes put it there.

Then take a look at the plural of this noun - Banot, and ask
yourself where the Nun came from.

And a mystery: Since you're by choice ignorant of the
most basic Arabic, Proto-Semitic, Akkadian, Moabite, etc.,
how can you know, one way or another , whether or not
these are relevant to biblical Hebrew.

Finally, in today's Haaretz is a brief note about the translation
of the HB into modern Hebrew for children.

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1196311.html

Uri Hurwitz Great Neck, NY









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