[Heb-NACO] Let's make life more interesting -- more on Romanization of words originally from foreign languages

[Kuperman, Aaron]

There have been Hebrew word of Greek and Latin origin since at least the period of Bayis Sheini (if not earlier - note recent articles suggesting Jewish contact with Greeks dates back to the Philistines).  The real question is what to do with a foreign word (regardless of origin, usually today they are from various Romance languages or English or Russian) that has entered Israeli usage (meaning it shows up in books) but has  NOT yet made it into dictionaries.  The same problem applies to personal names.  I suggest the easiest rule is that if a non-Hebrew word is not found in Hebrew dictionaries, to assume it is pronounced the way it was in the original language (or to sound overly technical, assume a rebuttable presumption that a foreign word in Hebrew is pronounced the same as in the original language, until rebutted by a dictionary).

Aaron Kuperman, LC Law Cataloging Section.
This is not an official communication from my employer


From: Heb-naco [mailto:heb-naco-bounces at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger
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Subject: [Heb-NACO] Let's make life more interesting -- more on Romanization of words originally from foreign languages

Colleagues,
After the discussion on Psikhologyah, Dramah, Psefas, etc. etc. etc.
what about פסנתר and טרקלין?
Those two are from Greek and/or Latin origin (see Even Shoshan) although they are not directly Greek/Latin words (check Even Shoshan)

Your thoughts?

Yossi


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