[Mesorah] Fw: Heh Hayedia

[D&E-H Bannett]

> Re: <<experts please enlighten me: does the HH in its 
> second word generate a dagesh in the following yud?
>
> I'm very far from an expert in dikduk but I believe that 
> according to its rules the yud in the second word comes 
> after a HH and therefore has a dagesh.  Assuming that the 
> Semitic definite article was hal, the expedrts tell us 
> that the shortening to "ha" resulted in tashlum dagesh in 
> the following letter. Similarly in Arabic the article is 
> al and the "l" is often omitted and compensated for by 
> doubling the following letter as in Hebrew.
>
> The ba'alei hamesora noticed it was not pronounced by the 
> ba'alei k'ria of their time so they did not give  it a 
> dagesh. If I would think that the ba'lei k'ria knew the 
> rules of dikduk, I would say that because the yud is a 
> weak letter it gets lost easily. As I think that the rules 
> were made much later, I cannot say whether these yuds 
> always had sh'vaim nachim or whether there was elision 
> k'dei l'hakel or other reasons.
>
> In my previous e-mail whenever I mentioned hei hay'dia I 
> wrote it in Latin letters with a sh'va na', i.e., 
> accordiing to the rule book.  If the word had appeared in 
> the Torah, I'm quite sure it would not have had a sh'va 
> na'.
>
> Hayda'tem appears three times in Tanakh and, according to 
> Breuer and Cohen-Keter, its hei does not have a meteg.
>
>
> David