| 释义 |
yod|jɒd, jəʊd|
Also yodh.
[See jod.]
1. Name of the tenth (the smallest) letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
1735Lyons Scholars Instr. (1757) 25 Those Verbs which have Vau Consonant, or Yod Consonant for the second Radical. 1769Parkhurst Grk. Eng. Lexicon N.T. (1794) 385/2 An Iota, Jod, or Yod. 1861Grammatography 10 Yodh. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. ii. viii. 143 They remembered..what He had said about the permanence of every yod and horn of a letter in the Law. 1958D. Diringer Story of Aleph Beth i. iii. 36 Several letters in the Aḥiram sarcophagus (aleph, waw,..yodh,..and resh) indicate a cursive rather a monumental development. 1982Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XXVII. 76 Part II also has several appendices, dealing with Middle High German and Old Yiddish transcription, with the source of double waw and double yodh.
2. Phonetics. Also jod. The semi-vowel |j|.
1934M. K. Pope From Lat. to Mod. Fr. ii. i. 55 The voiced fricative sound j (jod), heard in bien bjẽ. 1954Pei Dict. Linguistics 237 Yodization, the changing of a pure-vowel (usually e or i) in hiatus into the semivowel which in English orthography is usually written y, and called yod after a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. 1971Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XVII. 19 Discussion is limited to two aspects of palatization in French: velars followed by front vowels, and clusters of single consonant plus yod. 1982J. C. Wells Accents of English I. ii. 163 The cure vowel is frequently preceded by a yod, /j/... GenAm reflects more widespread Yod Dropping than RP and most other British accents. Ibid. II. v. 435 Yod Coalescence in stressed syllables is common in Dublin..; dew = due = Jew. 1984Word XXXV. 70 The consequence of this for yod assibilation in Irish English is that it is not found in instances where it might be expected. |