§Stress[edit]
Hebrew has two frequent kinds of lexical stress, on the last syllable (milrá; מלרע) and on the penultimate syllable (the one preceding the last, mil‘él; מלעיל), of which the first is more frequent. Contrary to the prescribed standard, some words exhibit a stress on the antepenultimate syllable or even further back. This occurs often in loanwords, e.g. פּוֹלִיטִיקָה /poˈlitika/, "politics", and sometimes in native colloquial compounds, e.g. אֵיכְשֶׁהוּ /ˈeχʃehu/,[27] "somehow"; אֵיפֹשֶׁהוּ /ˈefoʃehu/,[citation needed] "somewhere". Colloquial stress is also often shifted from the last syllable to the penultimate, contrary to the prescribed standard, e.g. כּוֹבַע, normative stress /koˈvaʕ/, colloquial stress /ˈkovaʕ/ "hat"; שׁוֹבָךְ normative stress /ʃoˈvaχ/, colloquial stress /ˈʃovaχ/, "dovecote". This is also common in the colloquial pronunciation of many personal names, for example דָּוִדnormative stress /daˈvid/, colloquial stress /ˈdavid/, "David".[28]
Specific rules correlate the location or absence of stress in a syllable with the written representation of vowel length and whether or not the syllable ends with a vowel or a consonant.[nb 1] Because spoken Israeli Hebrew does not distinguish between long and short vowels, these rules are not evident in speech. They usually cannot be inferred from written text either, because usually vowel diacritics are omitted. The result is that nowadays stress has phonemic value, as the following table illustrates: acoustically, the following word pairs differ only in the location of the stress; orthographically they differ also in the written representation of the length of the vowels, however if vowel diacritics are omitted (as is usually the case in Modern Israeli Hebrew) they are written identically:
common spelling (Ktiv Hasar Niqqud) |
mil‘él-stressed | milrá-stressed | ||||||
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spelling with vowel diacritics | pronunciation | translation | spelling with vowel diacritics | pronunciation | translation | |||
ילד | יֶלֶד | /ˈjeled/ | boy | יֵלֵד | /jeˈled/ | will give birth | ||
אוכל | אֹכֶל | /ˈoχel/ | food | אוֹכֵל | /oˈχel/ | eating (masculine singular participle) |
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בוקר | בֹּקֶר | /ˈbokeʁ/ | morning | בּוֹקֵר | /boˈkeʁ/ | cowboy |
Little ambiguity exists, however, due to context and syntactic features; compare e.g. the English word "conduct" in its nominal and verbal forms.
§Vocabulary[edit]
Modern Israeli Hebrew has borrowed many words from Aramaic, Yiddish, Ladino, Arabic (spoken Arabic, mainly Judeo Arabic and Palestinian Arabic), German, Latin, Greek, Polish, Russian, English and other languages.[citation needed] Some typical examples are:
loanword | derivatives | origin | ||||||
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Hebrew | IPA | meaning | Hebrew | IPA | meaning | language | spelling | meaning |
ביי | /baj/ | goodbye | English | bye | ||||
אגזוז | /eɡˈzoz/ | exhaust system |
exhaust system |
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דיג׳יי | /ˈdidʒej/ | DJ | לדג׳ה | /ledaˈdʒe/ | to DJ | to DJ | ||
ואללה | /ˈwala/ | really!? | Arabic | والله | really!? | |||
כיף | /kef/ | fun | לכייף | /lekaˈjef/ | to have fun[w 1] | كيف | pleasure | |
חפיף | /χaˈfif/ | lightly | להתחפף | /lehitχaˈfef/ | to scram[w 2] | خَفِيف | lightly | |
אבא | /ˈaba/ | daddy | Aramaic | אבא | the father | |||
חלטורה | /χalˈtura/ | shoddy job | לחלטר | /leχalˈter/ | to moonlight | Russian | халтура | shoddy work[w 3] |
בלגן | /balaˈɡan/ | mess | לבלגן | /levalˈɡen/ | to make a mess | балаган | chaos[w 3] | |
תכל׳ס | /ˈtaχles/ | directly | Yiddish | תכלית | goal | |||
חרופ | /χrop/ | deep sleep | לחרופ | /laχˈrop/ | to sleep deeply | חְרוֹפּ | sleep | |
שפכטל | /ˈʃpaχtel/ | putty knife | German | Spachtel | putty knife | |||
גומי | /ˈɡumi/ | rubber | גומיה | /ɡumiˈja/ | rubber band | Gummi | rubber | |
גזוז | /ɡaˈzoz/ | carbonated beverage |
Turkish from French |
gazoz[w 4] from eau gazeuse |
carbonated beverage |
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פוסטמה | /pusˈtema/ | stupid woman | Ladino | inflamed wound[w 5] | ||||
אדריכל | /adriˈχal/ | architect | אדריכלות | /adriχaˈlut/ | architecture | Akkadi |
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