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Probably "matres lectionis": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mater_lectionis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mater_lectionis (probably should have been "mater l
by tomsmeding 5y ago
Probably "matres lectionis": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mater_lectionis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mater_lectionis (probably should have been "mater lectionis" (mtr lctinis?) given the rest of the sentencr ;) )
I didn't know this term existed, but the letters felt like Latin to me.
Presumably the point is to use some well-chosen vowels where they are necessary for disambiguation.
- samatman 5y agoJust so, and this is the reason the trick works so well in Hebrew: aleph, vav, yod, and ayin, serve as vowels in most contexts where such are needed.