[Heb-NACO] follow-up to my earlier email

[Heidi G Lerner]

Ah, the vagaries of romanization......

That is the decades-old dichotomy.

That is why so many of us pushed the use of native scripts.


Heidi G. Lerner

Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica Emerita, Stanford University Libraries


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From: Shinohara, Jasmin <jshino at upenn.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2023 12:03 AM
To: Heidi G Lerner <lerner at stanford.edu>; heb-naco <heb-naco at lists.osu.edu>
Subject: Re: follow-up to my earlier email

The question is whether we expect catalogers to know these grammatical minutiae…
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Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2023 10:47:41 PM
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Subject: [Heb-NACO] follow-up to my earlier email

When the beged-kefet letter is not at the beginning of a syllable, or, if it’s followed by any vowel (not just a long vowel), and in this case by the vowel which ends the first word of the construct), it loses its dagesh kal. Jasmin, In your

When the beged-kefet letter is not at the beginning of a syllable, or, if it’s followed by any vowel (not just a long vowel), and in this case by the vowel which ends the first word of the construct), it loses its dagesh kal.  Jasmin, In your examples, the “yod” at the end of שפתי, and the “hay” at the end of מראה, are not considered consonants, so the last vowels of each word do immediately precede the beged-kefet letter of the second word.


best, Heidi


Heidi G. Lerner

Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica Emerita, Stanford University Libraries

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