Well, it is a fact that in EVERY part of lamed-he verbs in which the final he is actually written, that he is a mater lectionis, as pointed by the Masoretes. For it is always word final, and never has mappiq. This of course excludes a small class of verbs where the third radical is an actual consonantal he, pointed with mappiq when word final - but HWH is not one of those verbs.Just to clarify here, the root we are considering is conventionally
regarded as HWH but is in fact more correctly HWY (or perhaps HWW),
because the final he (which has no mappiq, so I my suggestion has no
problem with mappiq) is in fact not a pronounced he but a mater
lectionis replacing an original yod (or perhaps vav).
Not impossible, but hardly a fact. I doubt ayn-ayn for hi or hw cell.
...I never said it did arise from schwa. But I note that he (in biblical Hebrew), when not word final, NEVER represents an "a" sound, but always a pronounced consonant - as you recognise below apparently with your garbled "vcvv".
Then aleph in Iao is unlikely to originate from schwa. Rather, Y- I, H- a,
WH - o.
also the name of king Yehu' (Jehu), which is EIOU,
IHOU or IOU in Greek (H = eta) with no consonant replacing he.
Here he survived, as you see, though mutilated. Undoubtedly, you recognize
that similar pronunciation cannot make Iao out of ihie or ihwe.
In my opinion, you unwarrantedly ignore a rare phonetic environment of YHWH,
vcvv. ...
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