Re: Una Lectura en Ladino para la Clase

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Eric Christopherson wrote:

> Padraic Brown wrote:
> > > 7. y izo (=hizo?) el dio ala espandidura y aparto' entre las aguas.
>
> > izo I think might be expected
> > from the Hebrew transcription, as h- isn't pronounced and wouldn't have
> > survived.
>
> The question is whether the h in hizo was pronounced or not. This h,
> like many cases of initial h in Spanish, was derived from Latin f. I'm
> not sure whether it was still pronounced in Medieval Spanish and
> Ladino or whether it had become silent by then.
Oo, tha's right!  The aitch was pronounced into the 16th or 17th cen. or
so (I think).  I wonder why an obvious h- then would not be
translitterated (does Hebrew have that letter, or something similar?)

Padraic.

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