To: "'Harold Holmyard'" <hholmyard AT ont.com>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] English term for Hebrew grammatical term?
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:50:19 -0700
This is the dagesh in words like eille (these), henna (hereto), lamma (why,
what for). The term used in Gesenius (#20k) is dagesh forte FIRMATIVUM. I
was hoping that there is a more "popular" term that can be
readable/pronounceable by lay people. Do you (or someone else) know of such
term?
Thanks and best.
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Rivka
The Ohs and Ahs of Torah Reading
YODAN Publishing
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] English term for Hebrew grammatical term?
Dear Rivka,
> Does anyone on this list know the English name/term for Dagesh LeTif'eret
> HaKri'ah? (literally, dagesh for the glory of the reading).
HH: If you could explain what it does, it would be