To: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Any meaning to the Dagesh?
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:43:44 +0000
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:35 PM, David Hamuel wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It's not the same word in the sense of meaning. The first means
>> "finished." The second means "locked up."
>>
>> Really? I didn't know that. Get rid of the dagesh — what we have now?
>
> David, I was just adding that since I felt your point on these words
> was not clear, and it might be interpreted as if saying that it's the
> exact same word. I'm sure you did know that, just what you said
> was ambiguous. I also realize it is a good example of a minimal
> pair. It came up in my search for such words from which I took the
> ones that I posted, but I limited myself because there were just too
> many examples.
And to add one little bit, your example is a perfect example of a
minimal pair, but most of mine (except qinnim/qinim and nicca/h,
and possibly licbo/licvo) are not.
Yitzhak Sapir
Re: [b-hebrew] Any meaning to the Dagesh?
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