[Mesorah] Shitrei or Shtarei Hovoteinu

[גודיק שלמה]

A recent broadcast on Israeli radio pointed out that the s'michut of words of binyan "ketel" differs from that of binyan k'tal. The first binyan is of Tanachic provenance, while the second is post-Tanachic and entered Hebrew under the influence of Aramaic.  

The first group includes words like "perek", "beged", "perach", and "peleg", and their s'michut in the plural is "pirkei", "bigdei", pirchei", and "palgei".  The second group contains words like "p'ras", "p'gam",  "p'rat", and "k'lal", and their 'smichut forms are "p'rasei", "p'gamei", p'ratei", and "k'lalei"  (even though 99% of Israelis wrongly say "pirtei p'ratim" instead of "p'ratei p'ratim").

My question is: at first glance, the words "sh'tar" and "p'sak" also belong to the second group. But in the siddur we find the usage: "shitrei hovoteinu", not "sh'tarei".   Also I have never heard anybody say "p'sakei halacha" (as opposed to "piskei z'man" for intermissions).   Are these simply examples of misuse of the language?  Do S'faradim pronounce them "sh'tarei" and "p'sakei"?.  

Kol tuv,
Shlomo Godick 


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