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[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

       Yes, to which one may add the F. name Rachel.
 I hope no one will be upset to discover that this F. noun too
 has a masculine plural ending.

        As does shanah - shanim. Thus Shanah Tovah!
  pl. Shanim Tovot

        Uri  Hurwitz

 



 My point is that 'goats' have a masculine looking form and a masculine
looking plural, yet they are "feminine".
So there really isn't any problem in applying ya`el to a girl. the ya`el is
a goat. A majestic goat to be sure.
As for the masculinity of ya`el, is/was there any concord with the other
occurrences in the Bible to show that ya`el was always 'masculine-only'?
Other 'cross-forms' exist. For example "qohelet" appears to be the 'convener
of an assembly" and was masculine, yet the form with" -et" is distinctively
'feminine'.
And we have Yona, a man's name formed from a feminine noun.


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