Re: Jewish names
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 1, 2000, 17:13 |
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:38:38 -0400, Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
wrote:
>On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:31:34 -0400 Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> writes:
>> What stands in Hebrew for the Greek <o:> in Io:nas, Io:se:ph,
>> Abessalo:m,
>> etc.?
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>> Basilius
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>Yonah is spelled with a hholam-malei (carrier "vav" with a hholam /o/ dot
>on top).
>Yoseif is also spelled with a hholam-malei.
>Avshalom as well.
Very interesting!
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