[Heb-NACO] strings!

[Manuel Frau-Cortes]

Hi all,

I have a question regarding the Romanization of the word מיתרים. The vowel under mem is a segol, followed by a yud, so it should be “metarim,” which is the solution I found in all LC records.

However the segol + yud rule is intended to be applied to cases where the yud is a mater lectionis, while in the word מיתר the yud is a radical. As Even-Shoshan says, it derives from יתר.

What to do in a case like that? If there are any native Hebrew speakers among us, do you pronounce this yud?


Neil M. Frau-Cortes

Hebraica Cataloger
McKeldin Library
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone (301) 405-9337
nfrau at umd.edu

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