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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] SOBIY
  • Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 12:46:06 -0400

You may find this of some linguistic interest. Here is the rousing refrain SOBIY, SOBIY MAMTERAH, turn, turn sprinkler :

סובי, סובי, ממטרה, הי
סובי, סובי, ממטרה
לפזר פניני אורה
סובי והתיזי מים
עץ יריע בשדרה
אדמה תיתן פריה
באין גשם משמיים

from the popular Israeli song HORAH MAMTERAH. Here: http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRUyFyRJOUE you may listen to it being performed by the prima diva, the תימניה Shoshanah Damari. What is interesting in this is that I think I hear her sing SOVIY, SOVIY, with a soft B, and not SOBIY, SOBIY, with a hard B.

Isaac Fried, Boston University



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