English Explanatory Dictionary

dagesh lene

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small dot put in the middle of a consonant in Hebrew. It originally had the effect of transforming a fricative sound into a stop.

Word forms

dagesh lene dagesh lenes

Etymology

From dagesh + Latin lēne (“soft, weak”).

Related words

dagesh dagesh forte
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