- A
mater lectionis (/ˌmeɪtər ˌlɛktiˈoʊnɪs/ MAY-tər LEK-tee-OH-niss, /ˌmɑːtər -/ MAH-tər -;
Latin for 'mother of reading', pl.
matres lectionis /ˌmɑːtreɪs...
- 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...
-
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...
- ( ָ ), and in this
sense functions like Aleph, Vav, and Yud as a
mater lectionis,
indicating the
presence of a long vowel. However, it may also be used...
- consonants,
though even by the 9th
century BC it had
developed matres lectionis to
indicate some,
mostly final, vowels. This
arrangement is much less...
-
There are no
letters for vowels,
though some can be
indicated via
matres lectionis. Its
mature form was
reached around 800 BCE and its use
continued until...
-
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...
- syllables. An
early system to
overcome this,
still used today, is
matres lectionis,
where four of
these letters, alef, he, vav and yud also
serve as vowel...
