Re: Newbee Question - Many thanks

"izzy" <cohen.izzy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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... Hallelujah! (what's this, a German 'j' in an English
transliteration?)

Actually, a German j-sound in English transcription.

I was hoping to be ironic with transliteration accusation. I just hold an
opinion that many words could have been transliterated better that it
seems that they were, thus my attempt at irony. :-)

Today, the Hebrew letter yod has a partial velar Y-sound. Giving it a
full velar G/K-sound and giving the Hebrew heh a dalet+heh DH-sound
makes the yod-heh at the end of Hallelujah sound quite like Goth/Gott
or Cath.

That's modern Hebrew, yes? I've heard that no one really knows how
ancient Hebrew was pronounced. Is that possibly true?

I'm not familiar with the derivitive, 'Cath.' Which language took
phonemes in that direction?

It simply means praise+God.

Amen. :-)

Giving the Hebrew vav an F-sound as in VeSeT = menstruation borrowed
from Greek phasis = phase of the moon makes vav-heh sound quite like
FaTH as in father/pater.

Nice. So many of the words of the different languages would seem to share
some Hebrew roots.

Are you a linguist?

So, now you know the "meaning" of the tetragrammaton YHVH: God +
Father, that is a father-god or creator (since adjectives come after
the noun they modify in Hebrew).

As in French.

I once heard on a TV documentary tracking the migrations of Jews that
castillian Spanish comes from the migration of Jews through the Island of
Rhodes and then through Italy and then Spain. I wasn't following the
program that carefully as I would have liked, but I think that's what I
had heard. Would that be right?

Compare this name with the Roman god
Juh-piter.

God-father. Father of the gods?

And did the original Mafia bosses maybe think of themselves as modeling
the Nephilum Jupiter's clan power structure?
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