[Mesorah] Trop Metigah ("Kadma Zakef Katon")

Michael Poppers michaelpoppers at gmail.com
Sat Jun 15 20:45:48 PDT 2019


Aharon et al., my (Minhag FFdM) leining tradition indeed leins such trop in
a unique fashion, not like a zaqeif alone and not like a phrase composed of
words graced by a qadma and a zaqeif.

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 1:23 PM Aharon Gal via Mesorah <
mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> I am curious to know how Ba’alei Keriah leins a word that has a Metigah.
> I used the term Metigah, but there are other names to it. The Yemenites
> call it Dorban.
> Some call it Kadma-Zakef Katon.  I don’t use this term, as the siman above
> the letter is not Kadma, it is only the same siman that Kadma uses.
> Some call it Pashta Katon. I dont like this term either, for the same
> reason that I dont like the terem Kadma-Zakef Katon.
>
> In a word like “לְבִ֨נְיָמִ֔ן” (Levinyamin), some emphasize both the the
> Zakef Katon and the “Kadma” (the “not kadma…”), which i dont know if this
> is correct or not,
> because this “Kadma” is not a ta’am, but Metiga. Some treats it as a
> Meteg. But also those who treat it as a Meteg, or secondary accent, I am
> not sure if they need to
> accent the letter under the metiga, or may be the metiga is always
> (almost) at the same place, but not necessarily the accent is (compare
> Telishot).
> Most uses special nigun (“melody”) for a word that has Metiga-Zakef Katon,
> but I am curious to know if in addition to it they pronounce the Metiga as
> well.
>
> Aharon
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