--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:
>
> Hebrew didn't/doesn't have a /dj/ sound --so maybe /k/
> was compensatory
>
>
> --- ualarauans <ualarauans@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > If I remember right there's a mention of m.k.ri
> > (Mogeri?) by Eldad ha-
> > Dani or in Sepher Yosippon. If that be true, where's
> > the "dzh"?
One has to find the source and look what kind of -k- it is and
whether the name might really pertain to the Magyars. Afaik the
usual name for Hungaria(ns) in Yosippon is 'wngr or 'wngri. In
the "Letter of Provence" it's hngryn. Both are obviously taken from
LLat. The mkri may represent a direct rendering of "Magyar" as heard
by ear and be thus decisive in determining its phonetics.
Are there other examples of kaf (or qof?) for [dj] in Medieval
Hebrew?