From: Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: -aykhi ending, Psalms 103, 116
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 07:32:01 -0500 (EST)
> From: Henry Churchyard <churchyh AT ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
> To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: -aykhi ending, Psalms 103, 116
> 2nd.fem.sg suffix in general was originally -kii, but original -ay-
> usually monophthongizes in oenvironements like this... Also, this
> ending only appears in two passages where the fem.sg. "you" being
> addressed is the soul.
I would say there's some interesting dialectology left to be done on
the psalms. nonstandard and conservative, interesting.
-ay- doesn't always simplify: 1s -ay-y, 3ms -aw-w < -ay-w,
and also 2fs -ay-ik. conclusion, no simplification when double
linking; and ending is /-iki/, crucially glide flanking /k/.
therefore, when a longer archaising /-ikii/ is attached, -ay-ykii is
the result. the qametz should reduce to pathah when not in major
pause.
V
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The world needs open hearts and open minds, and it is not through
rigid systems, whether old or new, that these can be derived.
--Bertrand Russell
-aykhi ending, Psalms 103, 116,
Vincent DeCaen, 12/01/1998