On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 07:03:38AM -0500, Kevin Buchs wrote: > It seems to me that there are many *secrets *of the Holladay lexicon and > other lexicons which are not documented. Perhaps you can help me with these > questions. Reference the entry for nathan (NFTAN), in the 1988 edition (13th > impression) on page 249. In the grammatical forms section (preceding > definition) there are entries for imperfects (impf.). The second one is > YIT.EN- . Does the ending meqqeph indicate that this is a form that only > appears with object suffixes? Additionally, I find myself asking regularly
Hello Kevin, these forms are such forms wich are "connected" with the following word with a maqqef, i.e. the two words are pronounced together. Because of that the vocalization changed from ṣērē into segōl. P.T. -- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> Jabber: [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EA 355:001 DU DU DU DU EA 355:002 TU TU TU TU EA 355:003 NU NU NU NU NU NU NU EA 355:004 NA NA NA NA NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
