medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
V. Kerry Inman remarked:
>> You need to see the yod as both consonantal and vocalic--this is to say
syllabic. It is pronounced as "i-y." Because: you cannot begin a Semitic
syllable with a vowel. <<
I think I see what is meant now. Taking the i of Azariah as a pronomial
object pronoun or a pronomial possessive pronoun would leave -ah as
a syllable, which is forbidden, but this can be resolved if the i taken
thus devolves from a yod with dagesh forte for then we should have
Azariyah and the impossible syllable ah would be converted to the
acceptible syllable yah.
Mata
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Mata Kimasitayo
Kimasita~aT~Bloomington~In~Us
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