Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] bgdkpt (was: About Dagesh's)
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:24:27 +0300
Issac
> I will write B for the hard Hebrew bet, V for a soft bet, and W for
waw, and recall, in connection with what you are saying,
> the useful latter-day override to the BGDKP"T rule: HIT-XAVER [not
HIT-XAWER], 'he became friendly with someone',
> as opposed to HIT-XABER, he hitched himself to something', both from
the root XBR.
This is a nice example of how speakers of a language may understand its
"heart" better than its grammar.
I remember how in school the teachers would remind us to say "af al pi
xen" and not "ken"
which was hard for native speakers of a language that had lost the more
complex elements of the bgdkpt rules.
Can you explain why the masoretes vocalized "my chamocha ... my khamocha
..." ?
I agree that it is a bit easier to allow the dagesh in the second (the
first is a makaf!)
but both should be chamocha.