dagesh lene

English Edit

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Etymology Edit

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

Noun Edit

dagesh lene (plural dagesh lenes)

(Hebrew grammar) 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.

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