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[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

Thanks, Randall.

Do you know whether Jouon-Muraoka 18h-18j is available on the net?

Heartly,

Pere Porta

2011/5/3 Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>

> >I'm looking for some kind of systematization for those words that here and
> there in the biblical text appear having a daguesh in their first letter
> without, apparently, any good reason for it.
>
> And so:
>
> +WB -------- Ez 17:8
> SWP ------- Ex 10:19
>  &)R --------- Ex 12:15
> M(+ --------- Jb 24:24
> M(+ --------- Hos 8:10
> $M( ---------- Ez 44:5
>
> and many others.
>
> Would it be possible to systematize this in some way?
> Does this dagesh happen whenever the preceding word ends in heh?
> Does this dagesh happen whenever the preceding word ends in waw?
> Does this dagesh happen whenever the preceding word ends in a vowel?
> Can I find some explanation of this phenomenon in the common Hebrew
> grammars?
> Other thoughts?
>
> Regards from
> Pere Porta
> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
> >
>
> You are describing various kinds of 'euphonic dagesh'. See a reference
> grammar like Jouon-Muraoka 18h-18j. These items are technically
> 'sub-phonemic', meaning that they do not distinguish meaning.
>
> Randall Buth
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