[Heb-NACO] Deramah

[Joan Biella]

In the interest of standardizing the romanization of Hebrew words in RDA
cataloging, we rely on a couple of authoritative dictionaries.
Specifically, when a word of foreign derivation begins with a consonant
plus sheva, following by another vocalized consonant, we consult Alcalay's
Milon ʽIvri-Angli shalem (Tel-Aviv : Masadah, 1964). This dictionary
usually omits the sheva character in such words if it is not pronounced.
When, for whatever reason, it includes this sheva character, we romanize it
as "e," regardless of the pronunciation, so that all catalogers will
romanize it similarly.

This practice is documented in the Hebraica cataloging manual for RDA,
which can be consulted at
http://rascat.pbworks.com/w/page/7836007/FrontPage--it's the first item
under "Cataloging--Documentation."

Joan


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Manuel Frau-Cortes <nfrau at umd.edu> wrote:

>   I am really curious about why *deramah* appears as an exception to the
> sheva in foreign loan words rule. The source (draftHMC p. 20) only cites
> Alcalay, but I see no explanation there, other than the word has a
> *circellus**, *which only means it’s a borrowed word.
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> Has anybody ever pronounced deh-rah-mah? Does the same rule apply to דרמטורג,
> דרמטורגיה?
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> Like in the case of *deruzi* / דרוזי, I can’t see a reason for this
> exception. Maybe somebody can explain.
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> Shabbat shalom,
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> *Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D.*
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>  Judaica, Hebraica and Metadata Cataloger
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