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  • From: Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>
  • To: Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] dagesh in two root nouns with patah
  • Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:22:58 -0800

>so any doubling would have had to be written
out explicitly

actually, "doubling" is a popular name for consonant length in a
word like Huqqim. Length was not written with two symbols, so
Huqqim was written with one 'q', just like dal/dallim were not
written with two lamed symbols.

What we have in the Semitic languages is that words with
'doubled'/lengthened consonants drop their length when a final
syllable drops. That is why you have Huqqim preserving the length
but it drops in Hoq (after the case endings dropped). A verb
like יסבו yasobbu (plural) would become yasob (singular).
(Length retraction in forms like yissob is a second and different
phenonmenon.)

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