shana tova

[davidfcooper]

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Best wishes for a sweet and healthy new year to all my lj friends.

Comments

[richardf8]

Nice. I had fun with the last word too. I think that the feminine ending takes the stress, causing the kamatz that would normally appear under the mem to reduce to a sheva. Now the puzzle: is the sheva vocal or not? A sheva under the consonant after a conjunctive "וּ" is not vocal, hence "Shanah tovah oomtokah."

This is what I get for studying Biblical Hebrew with the sort of man who has been known to make his own violin varnish. Frankly, it's a good thing, because phonology makes so much more sense when you know what the rules are.

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

Well, you're lucky to have had such a good teacher. I learned Hebrew (as I learn everything) more intuitively than methodically. I think the last word is pronounced "oomtookah."

[morgan1.livejournal.com]

l'shana tovah, a bit late though it is!