Re: Jewish names

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:13:30 -0400 Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> writes:
> That is, hholam-malei (AFAIK mostly representing earlier diphthongs
> in -w, contracted by the Mazora times) becomes <o:>, while single
> hholam (mostly from Semitic [a:]) is rendered as <o:y">...
>
> If Coptic is an evidence of <y> > [@] in Egyptian Greek, the above
> could mean that the vowel corresponding to Mazoretic simple hholam
> was pronounced as some diphthongal [o@] in the Septuagint epoch.
>
> A little bit untraditional... ;)
>
>
> Basilius
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I have my article by Cornell's Professor Gary Rendsburg about Biblical
Hebrew Phonology here somewhere, but not infront of me.....but i thought
that hholam-hhaseir is generally from [u], like in the Hebrew/Arabic pair
_qodesh_/_quds_.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "survival is insufficient."