Re: Monovocalism: sequel - correction

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 33413
Date: 2004-07-06

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> > > Hebrew shows minimal lexical pairs, e.g.:
> > > yo:m = day; ya:m = sea
> > > (ayin)e:z = goat; (ayin)o:z = strength
> > > ?el = to ?e:l = god

> Not quite. The unpointed spellings are <ywm>, <ym>, <`z>, <`z> (I
> presume - not in my limited dictionaries), <?l>, <?l>.

Correction: I did find <`z> /`o:z/ 'strength' once I considered that
(unpointed) spelling. (I initially looked for <`wz>.)

Richard.