dagesh lene

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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dagesh lene (plural dagesh lenes)

  1. (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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