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In traditional Ashkenazi pronunciation, tav represents an /s/ without the dagesh and has the plosive form when it has the dagesh.
IpseDixit wrote:And is it of Germanic or Semitic origin? Modern Israeli Hebrew has that word too, only it's pronounced [ta'xat].
linguoboy wrote:
Generally, yes. Historically it lenited to [θ] in Hebrew. In areas where the dominate vernacular had /θ/ (e.g. Greece, Iraq, Yemen), it was maintained as such. Otherwise it fell together with /s/ (Ashkenazic), /d/ (Spain, Portugal), or /t/ (other Sephardic communities).
Hent wrote:linguoboy wrote:
Generally, yes. Historically it lenited to [θ] in Hebrew. In areas where the dominate vernacular had /θ/ (e.g. Greece, Iraq, Yemen), it was maintained as such. Otherwise it fell together with /s/ (Ashkenazic), /d/ (Spain, Portugal), or /t/ (other Sephardic communities).
Is תּחת relative to the English word tush?
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