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In Hebrew, what is the little "omega" sign above letters when a linguist writes the phonetic explanation?
A teacher of Hebrew explained the accents, dagesh'im, nikkudot, etc when a word is written with all the phonetic signs. One of them is unfamiliar to me, and looks like a little lowercase omega (like a smooth w) above a letter in a word. What does this mean, and what is the name for this sign? Please no guessing.
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- MercLv 610 years agoFavorite Answer
The consonants א, ה, ח, ע (and ר) can't have a dagesh (a "strong" dagesh). So instead, when they need to show such consonants with a dagesh (e.g., to show the starting form), teachers borrow Arabic's "shadda" (which parallels Hebrew's strong dagesh). Of course, you use this mark in textbooks only and not in valid Hebrew text.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadda
The most notable place (the only place where I've seen this, I think) where the shadda is used is when writing the names of the three conjugations פִּעֵ ّל, פֻּעַ ّל, הִתְפַּעֵ ّל (I hope you can see the shadda I typed over each ע).
- ?Lv 45 years ago
My recommendation might be...do not perpetuate what you despise. The content material of such letters isn't the obstacle. It's the spreading of any chain letters/unsolicited mail that is the crisis. I'd be as prone to get pissed off at a atheist one as a devout one simply considering it is a bloody chain letter.
