Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Rolf" <rolf.furuli AT sf-nett.no>]

Dear Isaac,


There are different views as to the origin of the dagesh. I was not arguing 
in favor of any of these views, but my post was descriptive. This means that 
I referred to certain Masoretic phonological rules. One rule is that when a 
begadkefat is preceded by a vowel, the consonant is fricative.



Best regards


Rolf Furuli
Stavern
Norway 
 
 
Mandag 3. Juni 2013 13:27 CEST skrev Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>: 
 
> 1. The kaf is the first letter of the syllable only if you make it  
> so. "Opening" and "closing" syllables is an irrelevant and arbitrary  
> game in Hebrew.
> 
> 2. In my opinion there is no such thing as "it should have had a  
> dagesh". The dagesh was, or was not, there before the NIYQUD.
> 
> 3. The kaf is fricative because you make it so.
> 
> 
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
> 
> On Jun 3, 2013, at 3:20 AM, Rolf wrote:
> 
> > The kaf is the first letter of the syllable, and because it has no  
> > preceding vowel, it should have had a dagesh and have been a stop,  
> > according to Masoretic rules. But it is fricative because other  
> > forms of MLK have a vowel before the kaf.
>