Dear Isaac,
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 <[email protected]>: > 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. > _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
