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maccaph, n.|ˈmækəf, mæˈkæf|
Also makaf, makaph, maqqeph.
[ad. Heb. maqqāp̱, lit. ‘binder’.]
A Hebrew diacritic, similar in form to a hyphen, indicating that words thus joined should be pronounced as if they were one.
1593J. Udall tr. P. Martinius Key of Holy Tongue ii. x. 199 There is a mark of uniting words in the Hebrue very often, and it is called Makaph, beeing a lyne drawne a long from one woord to the other. 1668J. Wilkins Ess. towards Real Char. & Philos. Lang. II. i. vi. 45 For uniting those words which are to be pronounced as one..HYPHEN, Maccaph. 1738R. Grey Meth. Hebrew p. v, A long Vowel, before the Line of Union called Maccaph, is always pronounced short; as..ben for bên, col, for côl, et for êt & c. 1874A. B. Davidson Introd. Hebrew Gram. 22 Part of the accentual or rhythmical machinery is the Maqqeph or hyphen which binds two or more words together... All the words joined by Maqqeph losing their accents except the last, their long vowels if changeable become short. 1993I. Eldar in L. Glinert Hebrew in Ashkenaz iii. 33 The treatise itself is in two parts. The first provides an impressive range of rules concerning the place of stress..and the juncture and phonological rhythm (as marked by the meteg and makaf). |