Matres lectionis (from Latin "mothers of reading", singular form: mater lectionis, from Hebrew: אֵם קְרִיאָה 'em kri'a) are consonants that are used to... 15 KB (1,705 words) - 08:02, 19 March 2024 |
Holam (section Holam with other matres lectionis) the mid back rounded vowel, [o̞], and is transliterated as an o. The mater lectionis letter which is usually employed with holam is vav, although in a few... 28 KB (2,345 words) - 17:44, 20 March 2024 |
syllables, when the mater lectionis is yod (י) or aleph (א): בְּנֵי־ ([bəne], sons of), מוֹצֵא ([moˈtse], finding). When the mater lectionis is he (ה), the... 17 KB (1,918 words) - 04:43, 3 April 2024 |
rarely, vav with a geresh: ו׳יליאם – /ˈwiljam/. Vav can be used as a mater lectionis for an o vowel, in which case it is known as a ḥolam male, which in... 21 KB (1,915 words) - 20:37, 2 April 2024 |
Syriac alphabet (section Matres lectionis) word; these are marked with an asterisk (*). Three letters act as matres lectionis: rather than being a consonant, they indicate a vowel. ʾālep̄ (ܐ), the... 55 KB (3,290 words) - 09:52, 16 April 2024 |
Hebrew. In later Semitic languages, aleph could sometimes function as a mater lectionis indicating the presence of a vowel elsewhere (usually long). When this... 23 KB (2,398 words) - 05:08, 4 April 2024 |
Hebrew alphabet (section Matres lectionis) matres lectionis, which is when certain consonants are used to indicate vowels. There is a trend in Modern Hebrew towards the use of matres lectionis to indicate... 115 KB (4,985 words) - 09:01, 15 April 2024 |
and Modern Hebrew, Yod represents a palatal approximant ([j]). As a mater lectionis, it represents the vowel [i]. At the end of words with a vowel or when... 13 KB (1,196 words) - 18:21, 13 April 2024 |
Biblical Hebrew orthography (section Matres lectionis) <ου> as a consonant, <υ> as a consonant after vowels, <ου ω> as a mater lectionis Biblical Hebrew orthography refers to the various systems which have... 29 KB (2,847 words) - 19:03, 12 November 2023 |
Eastern Aramaic language notable for its abundant use of vowel letters (mater lectionis with aleph, he only in final position, ‘ayin, waw, yud) in writing... 26 KB (2,509 words) - 18:01, 1 April 2024 |
opposite to a mappiq, to show that the letters ה or א are silent (mater lectionis). The rafe generally fell out of use for Hebrew with the coming of... 9 KB (569 words) - 06:29, 20 October 2023 |
Aramaic alphabet (section Matres lectionis) they are known as matres lectionis or 'mothers of reading'. Ālap, likewise, has some of the characteristics of a mater lectionis because in initial positions... 42 KB (2,496 words) - 14:02, 5 April 2024 |
Nabataean Aramaic. Proto-Aramaic long *ā is sometimes spelled with a mater lectionis w, as in *ʔināš > ʔnwš 'human', *θamānā > tmwnʔ 'eight (m.)'. This... 46 KB (4,269 words) - 20:21, 2 February 2024 |
the four letters in the Tetragrammaton can individually serve as a mater lectionis. Several centuries later, between the 5th through 10th centuries CE... 125 KB (13,028 words) - 12:40, 17 April 2024 |
( ָ ), and in this sense functions like Aleph, Vav, and Yud as a mater lectionis, indicating the presence of a long vowel. Hei, along with Aleph, Ayin... 12 KB (1,032 words) - 11:22, 13 April 2024 |
Rioplatense Spanish. Diphthong Hiatus (linguistics) List of phonetics topics Mater lectionis Syllabic consonant Voiced labio-velar approximant Ladefoged & Maddieson... 10 KB (1,102 words) - 16:22, 23 February 2024 |
haser, in Hebrew orthography, a spelling variant that does not include mater lectionis Something presenting an anomaly, such as a product defect, making it... 382 bytes (80 words) - 16:51, 28 June 2019 |
dialects. The close front vowels usually use the consonant י y as a mater lectionis. The close back vowel is the "long" u (like the vowel in "school",... 152 KB (16,549 words) - 11:46, 14 April 2024 |
transcribed with macrons (Āā, Ēē, Īī, Ōō, Ūū) and are written with mater lectionis ( for /o/ and /u/, for /i/, which are also used at the end of a word... 54 KB (3,846 words) - 19:17, 17 April 2024 |
Hebrew might signify an absolutive case ending, marked by 'he' as a mater lectionis, notwithstanding common wisdom that makes a suffix impossible. Adding... 43 KB (5,113 words) - 15:11, 2 April 2024 |
phonology Great Vowel Shift Inherent vowel List of phonetics topics Mater lectionis Scale of vowels Table of vowels Vowel coalescence Words without vowels... 57 KB (7,108 words) - 12:52, 11 April 2024 |
as can be seen in Chagigah 15a:6. The consonant yod (י) acts as a mater lectionis (mother of reading), usually indicating the vowel hiriq (ī). Secondly... 39 KB (4,473 words) - 03:41, 10 April 2024 |
د, ذ Hē* h [h] 5 ה ه Waw* consonant: w mater lectionis: ū or ō (also u or o) consonant: [w] mater lectionis: [u] or [o] 6 ו و Zayn* z [z] 7 ז ز Ḥēṯ... 32 KB (2,455 words) - 02:33, 6 April 2024 |
mother of the family The female head of a family. See pater familias. mater lectionis mother of reading a consonant used to represent a vowel in writing... 27 KB (352 words) - 01:07, 29 September 2023 |
and when it should be on the line "ء", or placed above the previous mater lectionis, such as in alif with hamzah above "أ", or even if it should be used... 56 KB (4,512 words) - 04:57, 8 April 2024 |
letters (mostly approximant consonant letters) in a process called mater lectionis e.g. in Modern Arabic the long vowel /aː/ is represented by the letter... 32 KB (3,555 words) - 18:57, 11 April 2024 |