- A
mater lectionis (/ˌmeɪtər ˌlɛktiˈoʊnɪs/ MAY-tər LEK-tee-OH-niss, /ˌmɑːtər -/ MAH-tər -;
Latin for 'mother of reading', pl.
matres lectionis /ˌmɑːtreɪs...
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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...
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These consonants are
called matres lectionis (New Latin: sg. māter
lēctiōnis "mother of reading", pl. mātrēs
lēctiōnis "mothers of reading",
calques of...
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sounds were left implicit—though late
varieties sometimes used
matres lectionis to
denote some vowels. As its
letters were
originally incised using a...
-
alphabet all
represent consonants, some of
which are also used as
matres lectionis to
indicate long vowels.
Writing systems, like the Aramaic, that indicate...
- 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...
- 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", [u])...
- In
later Semitic languages,
aleph could sometimes function as a
mater lectionis indicating the
presence of a
vowel elsewhere (usually long). When this...
- an abjad:
consonants written with some
applied vowel letters ("matres
lectionis").
During the
early Middle Ages,
scholars known as the
Masoretes created...
- 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 vowel...
