Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] A question on the segollate words
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:33:07 +0100
On 27/09/2004 16:47, VC wrote:
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ut here is an example: yedkem, with two
tseres, from yad + -kem.
No good. We discuss two segols, not two tzeres.
This form has two segols. See Genesis 9:2 etc.
But most of our disagreement seems to be about speculative
reconstructions. We have e.g.
X > melek, X-i > malki
Y > neged, Y-i > negdi
Z > beged, Z-i > bigdi
We can't be sure exactly what the vowels are in X, Y and Z. But we can
suggest that either they were different vowels or else there must be
some good reason why the attested suffixed forms are different. I don't
think it is sufficient to say that X, Y and Z all had segol, but we
can't say much more than that.
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