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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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sounds were left implicit—though late
varieties sometimes used
matres lectionis to
denote some vowels. As its
letters were
originally incised using a...
- consonants,
though even by the 9th
century BC it had
developed matres lectionis to
indicate some,
mostly final, vowels. This
arrangement is much less...
-
consonant symbols with a
secondary function as
vowel markers,
called matres lectionis. This
practice was at
first rare and
limited in
scope but
became increasingly...
- 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...
- ( ָ ), 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...
- its
function as a consonant, and,
together with ya’ and wāw, is a
mater lectionis, a
consonant sign
standing in for a long
vowel (see below), or as support...
- 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...
- <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 been...
