Pere,
Do you really believe that the ancient Hebrews had something that we
are compelled to fancifully call today "energic nun"?
Yes -- but I'd drop the words "are compelled to fancifully".
You are saying
that this nun is inserted.
Don't know what you mean by "inserted". If you mean something like that
energic nun is a morpheme which is gradually dying out in BH and it is
consequently somewhat "optional", then yes, it is inserted.
But is it not the reverse, namely, that this
nun was there in the first place and then over time dropped out of the
form?
Yes, the morpheme was there and was gradually dying out.
Should we then mark and call the vacated spot "the dropped
energic nun fault line", or something else to this effect?
No, of course not.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
Regards,
David Kummerow.
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