Thanks.Richard W wrote:Underlying BCvD works quite well. In Biblical Hebrew, schwa is generally inserted between B and C, but if B is a weak consonant, it may be dropped instead.Zaarin wrote:So do all Semitic dialects have the vocalic prefix to avoid illegal clusters? If not, how do those other dialects pronounce imperatives with illegal clusters?
The regular Akkadian imperative (m.s.) is <BuCuD>, but I suppose that could hide a phonetic [BCuD].
Restoration
Re: Restoration
"But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”