--- On Wed, 4/13/11, Isaac Fried <[email protected]> wrote:
< I think that what you mean by "hearing" the dagesh is the faint natural doubling of any consonant,>.. Yes, precisely; thus you anwered your own previous challanges about the presenence of the Dagesh in the spoken language. It is not prevalent, but it can be heard, as in the example I offered. < The dagesh in HIZMANU, 'we invited, we ordered', follows a patax, and is there as expected > The Dagesh in this case is caused by assimilation of two consonants into one. In this case they are: 1. the final Nun of, the root (Z M N), and 2. the Nun of the the verbal suffix in perf. pl. -...nu . Identical roots this respect are LUN, LYN, Y$N etc. When letters are were assimilated or dropped, they were often compensated by emphasizing, or doubling the following consonant. For example: the many verbs with N as an initial consonant of the root in Qal, Imperf. Uri Hurwitz Great Neck, NY here N, situated between two vowels, here A and U. One hears it in AB-BIY, 'my father', AX-XIY, 'my brother', etc. Those who say they don't hear it need to pay closer attention. Isaac Fried, Boston University On Apr 13, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Uri Hurwitz wrote: Just say in Heb. "we invited" and, for comparison, "they invited". You'll hear the dagesh allright in the first. Uri Hurwitz Great Neck, NY --- On Wed, 4/13/11, Isaac Fried <[email protected]> wrote: Really, how can a dagesh be "pronounced"? Isaac Fried, Boston University On Apr 13, 2011, at 7:42 AM, Uri Hurwitz wrote: the Dagesh in the sceond consonant is not pronounced _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
