Re: pronunciation question on Gen 1:21
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2020 12:46 pm
Hi Glenn,
the word פקדי in Amos is an infinite, and we shouldn't compare the process of infinitive (which is basically a nominal form) to a verbal form like an imperfect שרץ.
So the "rule" that I wrote above is good for verbal forms (that has a reference of tense)
the infinitive has a different process.
The infinitve is base of the imperfect without its prefix.
so the imperfect is "yifqod" (base on "yapqud")
Notice that the P in that form has no vowel (a quiescent Sheva).
When the prefix Y is dropped, what left is: "pqud"
"Ya-pqud" --> pqud
But I remind you that the P is actually with no vowel (so it is not like it starts with a mobile Sheva).
That things caused a "trouble" - because now we have a form that starts with a combination of two consonants (at the beginning of the word).
Pqod.
And so, there was a vowel that was produced inside this combination to break it.
The vowel was "u"
pkud-->puqud
the "u" came by influence of the already existing vowel "u" in that form.
(but then the "u" "took over" also in other forms)
So now we have "puqud" - and we add the suffix "i"
"puqudi"
the second vowel was zeroed (or we would say was reduced to a mobile sheva) and the first "u" was turned to a qamats-qatan.
puqudi-->puqdi-->poqdi
The second vowel, as i wrote above, turned into Sheva.
But even though it was originated from a vowel, (and therefore, we should call it a mobile Sheva), it is pronounced as silent Sheva.
And notice that the D that comes after this silent Sheva is without Dagesh Lene.
the word פקדי in Amos is an infinite, and we shouldn't compare the process of infinitive (which is basically a nominal form) to a verbal form like an imperfect שרץ.
So the "rule" that I wrote above is good for verbal forms (that has a reference of tense)
the infinitive has a different process.
The infinitve is base of the imperfect without its prefix.
so the imperfect is "yifqod" (base on "yapqud")
Notice that the P in that form has no vowel (a quiescent Sheva).
When the prefix Y is dropped, what left is: "pqud"
"Ya-pqud" --> pqud
But I remind you that the P is actually with no vowel (so it is not like it starts with a mobile Sheva).
That things caused a "trouble" - because now we have a form that starts with a combination of two consonants (at the beginning of the word).
Pqod.
And so, there was a vowel that was produced inside this combination to break it.
The vowel was "u"
pkud-->puqud
the "u" came by influence of the already existing vowel "u" in that form.
(but then the "u" "took over" also in other forms)
So now we have "puqud" - and we add the suffix "i"
"puqudi"
the second vowel was zeroed (or we would say was reduced to a mobile sheva) and the first "u" was turned to a qamats-qatan.
puqudi-->puqdi-->poqdi
The second vowel, as i wrote above, turned into Sheva.
But even though it was originated from a vowel, (and therefore, we should call it a mobile Sheva), it is pronounced as silent Sheva.
And notice that the D that comes after this silent Sheva is without Dagesh Lene.