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Re: Jewish names

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 2, 2000, 1:47
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
- 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."