Re: Una Lectura en Ladino para la Clase

Padraic Brown togeme:

> 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?)
2. y la tiera era vana y vazia y escuridad sovre fasis de abismo y
espiritu de el dio abolava sovre fasis delash [sic] aguash. [sic]
                                 ^
3. y dijo el dio sea luz y fue luz.
                           ^

Some other explanation?

> Padraic.
>
> >
> > -------------------------------
> >       Eric Christopherson
> > eric@ticon.net erachrir@uwc.edu
> >
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