[Heb-NACO] foreign-loan word q: ‏אולטרה-סאונד

[Neil Manel Frau-Cortes]

I would say that alef acts as a mater lectionis in all of these cases, and
it was never intended as a glottal stop. So I will go for ulṭrah-saund (t
underdot) which is also less likely to confuse our users.

Neil

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 2:19 PM Shinohara, Jasmin <jshino at pobox.upenn.edu>
wrote:

> Hi all, as a foreign-loan word, and following HCM RDA2017rev, do we
> romanize the above as ulṭrah-saund or as vocalized in E-Sh.,
> ulṭerah-saʼund? (cf ocn 960906983/lccn 2016504199). I would think the
> former, but I wanted to open it up to the crowd. (Yes, a 246 can be given
> for the alternate, but which is the alternate and which is the preferred?)
>
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> (I guess from this follows the question of all the Hebrew names that
> aren’t actually Hebrew, e.g., those ending in –baum, Laufer, etc. – are
> they still to be romanized –ba’um, La’ufer even though the alif is not
> pronounced and the names aren’t actually Hebrew? Or do we maintain status
> quo for these to prevent slippery-slope-syndrome?)
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> Thanks, Jasmin
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