单词 | metheg |
释义 | methegn. In Hebrew writing: a small, perpendicular stroke beneath a consonant letter and to the left of a vowel sign, used to indicate stress and the lengthening of the vowel. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > written character not a letter > diacritic > Hebrew diacritic accent1583 makaf1593 metheg1593 1593 J. Udall tr. P. Martinius Key Holy Tongue i. iii. 17 This accent (that is Metheg) maketh the vowell long. 1686 J. Leusden Short Heb. & Caldaick Gramm. v. 16 Metheg doth somewhat suspend the first syllable. 1705 P. Levi Compend. Hebrew Gram. v. 14 Two of these Accents stand to sweeten the Pronunciation, and prevent too much swiftness in Reading; the one is Metheg, and the other is Pesik. 1862 M. M. Kalisch Hebrew Gram. i. 19 Exercise vii State the reasons why metheg is employed in the following words. 1864 Biblical Repertory 36 193 Methegh is not written in these manuscripts, though they thus attest the reality of the tone which it indicates. 1962 A. B. Davidson & J. Mauchline Introd. Hebrew Gram. (ed. 25) 43 The second full vowel from the tone, if open, is uniformly marked by methegh. 1972 Encycl. Judaica XVI. 1452 Perhaps the readers will go astray because of the abundance of metegs. 1987 E. Klein Comprehensive Etymol. Dict. Hebrew Lang. p. xvi The mark called ‘metheg’ in Hebrew..is placed under the letter stressed in penultimate accented syllables. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1593 |
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