Yes, the very early pronounciation could have been "....ahu" or "..ehu"
because an argument can be made that the H, since it was
written down, was initially pronounced as a consonant, with a vowel
attached to it. That is, it didn't just serve as the vowel O as would
appear from much later vowelling in the MT. But here we're treading in a
speculative field.
As for the F s 3rd pronominal suffix pronounciation,one is on firmer
ground. In this case the consonantal H can be definietly traced back to
an early stage reflected in the Arabic F s 3rd suffix. ...HA , equivalent
to the Hebrew He Aleph. This is clearly indicated by the "Mapik" in the
vowelled MT which servs as a residual reminder of an ancient A vowel
of the final He.
Uri
Uri: On 8/18/07, Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz at yahoo.com> wrote: > As to
the relationship between the two homonyms LO (lamed aleph - > "NO"),
and LO (lamed waw -- "TO HIM"), here again it pays to consult > Arabic
, because, like in so many other cases, it preserves earlier stages > of
the language. The spelling of "NO" in Ar.-- "LA," is the equivalent of the
> Heb.lamed aleph, while the spelling of "TO HIM" is --LaHW
pronounced > "Lahu". Obviously the "H" was dropped by the time of the
consonsntal text > of the HB. > > > Interestingly the same occurs
in some spoken Arabic dialects. > > Uri Hurwitz If you look at the
earliest Hebrew, particularly Genesis, there are several cases where the
third person singular masculine suffix was written with a heh; could the
pronunciation have been "-ahu"? Later contracted to -W to differentiate it
from the feminine? Karl W. Randolph.
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Dear Uri:
Thanks. I had always been puzzled at the cases where the third person
masc. suffix had been written with a heh instead of waw, this answers
it.
Karl W. Randolph.
On 8/21/07, Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> Karl,
>
> Yes, the very early pronounciation could have been "....ahu" or "..ehu"
> because an argument can be made that the H, since it was
> written down, was initially pronounced as a consonant, with a vowel
> attached to it. That is, it didn't just serve as the vowel O as would
> appear from much later vowelling in the MT. But here we're treading in a
> speculative field.
>
> As for the F s 3rd pronominal suffix pronounciation,one is on firmer
> ground. In this case the consonantal H can be definietly traced back to
> an early stage reflected in the Arabic F s 3rd suffix. ...HA , equivalent
> to the Hebrew He Aleph. This is clearly indicated by the "Mapik" in the
> vowelled MT which servs as a residual reminder of an ancient A vowel
> of the final He.
>
> Uri