1 SHAMASH.ORG /usr/www/wwwhc/listserv/archives/heblang May 2000
2 71 17_methodology et al13_Monica Devens17_mdevens@yahoo.com36_Mon, 8 May 2000 10:18:00 -0700 (PDT)472_us-ascii > Monica wrote: > Let us please remember that final heh is not *anything* phonetically. The >word /`asa/ ends in a *vowel*, not in an [h] of any kind. The heh is merely >orthographic, not phonetic. If you wish to claim that a third radical ayin >root is related to a third radical heh root, the most you can claim is that >ayin, as a difficult to pronounce sound, was lost. You *can not* claim that >it "degenerated" into heh, whatever that would even mean. [...]