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After going through about 5-7 versions of the Les Miserables quote, i
finally got it finished and up on the web.
And then i realized that I made another mistake.
AFTRÎ "other" should be IFTRÎ.
There're two Hebrew sound changes from the first millenium CE that i
wanted to put into Jûdajca.
One is the above one, that turns pre-accent closed-syllable /a/ into /i/
- which is why in the Greek biblical texts the person called in Hebrew
_Shimshon_ is called _Samson_ ~ Greek, having written the vowels down,
didn't go through any such change, while Hebrew, between the time of the
translations and the later Masoretic standardization of vowel signs had
gone through a sound shift, so put in the vowel sign for /i/ since that's
how they pronounced it then.
The other is almost the opposite - it turns accented closed-syllable /i/
into /a/, which is why we pronounce the name of the Pelishti (Philistine)
city-state of _Git_ as _Gat_ (Gath?)...i think that one happened earlier,
but maybe it was still going on when Jûdajca appears on the scene Over
There.
If anyone has a better source for the sound shifts (i think my copy of
Professor Rendsburg's article on the phonology of Ancient Hebrew is in a
storage place somewhere), please tell me.
And i decided that the /m/ in _*ammâl_ isn't geminated after all, it's
just _amâl_. The inter-language changes in wordform that would lead to
that only occur when the forming Jûdajca word fits a Hebrew or Aramaic
word pattern - and CaC²âC is an agentive noun pattern, which the verb
_amâl_ wouldn't assimilate into.
-Stephen (Steg)
"Judah Maccabee / how was I to see / what you would mean to me?"
~ _judah maccabee_ by safam
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