Re: Jewish names
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 1, 2000, 9:12 |
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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^)>
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