Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Why not mashicha?

Diqduq alert:

When a patah is under a het that ends a word, it becomes "ach" rather than "cha". Classic examples: mashiach, tzemach etc. but not "mashichah" or "tzemachah".

My question is simple: why?

And how do we know?

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