[Mesorah] Another kleinigkeit

[Aharon Gal]

Are the words  “ADONOY” and “ADONAY” are two different words? Or they are same word, but when it refers to HASHEM it comes with a  Komatz?
> On Jul 3, 2020, at 11:53 AM, Zev Sero via Mesorah <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:
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> On 2/7/20 11:28 pm, M. Hamm via Mesorah wrote:
>> Perhaps not, but /Tanach/ has unusual constructions in His honor. /Minchas Shay /IIRC gives His honor as a reason for the /dagesh/ in "/mi kamocha/" in /Az yashir/; and I *seem* to recall reading somewhere that appearing between two copies of His name is why "/mik'dash/", also in /Az yashir/, has a /dagesh/ "/l'sif'eres/".  So maybe /malach///instead of /mal'ach/, too?
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> That would make sense if it were the other way around.  If the first vowel were a patoch, and the second were *normally* a komatz, it would make sense to change it to a patoch for Divine names so it wouldn't sound like "mal'och".  But since the word is normally "molach", and we're discussing the variant "moloch", the change makes it *closer* to "mal'och" rather than more distinct from it.
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