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Re: Jewish names

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 1, 2000, 9:12
At 11:19 01.8.2000 +0300, Dan Sulani wrote:

> >> The, earlier, Septuagint version, > >>as I understand it, seems to always have "omega-upsilon" > >>where the Masoretic formulation uses "cholam".
It is thought that Greek omega was more open than omikron, just as eta is more open than epsilon. Maybe omega-upsilon was an attempt to write a vowel quality more closed than the usual Koine' value of omega (c.f. the Koine' /u/ pronunciation of omikron-upsilon!) /BP 8^)> -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:bpX@netg.se mailto:melrochX@mail.com (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Truth, Sir, is a cow which will give [skeptics] no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull." -- Sam. Johnson (no rel. ;)