There are different views as to the origin of the dagesh. I was not arguing
in favor of any of these views, but my post was descriptive. This means that
I referred to certain Masoretic phonological rules. One rule is that when a
begadkefat is preceded by a vowel, the consonant is fricative.
Best regards
Rolf Furuli
Stavern
Norway
Mandag 3. Juni 2013 13:27 CEST skrev Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>:
> 1. The kaf is the first letter of the syllable only if you make it
> so. "Opening" and "closing" syllables is an irrelevant and arbitrary
> game in Hebrew.
>
> 2. In my opinion there is no such thing as "it should have had a
> dagesh". The dagesh was, or was not, there before the NIYQUD.
>
> 3. The kaf is fricative because you make it so.
>
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> On Jun 3, 2013, at 3:20 AM, Rolf wrote:
>
> > The kaf is the first letter of the syllable, and because it has no
> > preceding vowel, it should have had a dagesh and have been a stop,
> > according to Masoretic rules. But it is fricative because other
> > forms of MLK have a vowel before the kaf.
>
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