Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] dating of matres lectionis
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:56:36 EDT
In a message dated 7/26/2005 7:49:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com writes:
The Mesha stele also uses -h for apparently final -a, in bllh (in the
night, line 15).
Do you understand the heh in BNH (line 18) "he built" to be a mater
lectionis, i.e. bana? Cross & Freedman so read it, developing from an
original
*banaya. I don't see how it could be consonantal.
Hayyim
Re: [b-hebrew] dating of matres lectionis
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