palatal

adjective

«palatal» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

In Sefer Yetzirah it names one of the five places where the 22 letters are sounded.

Interpretation. The letters are grouped by where in the mouth they are made, and the tradition reads this as showing that the letters form a structure of the world.

Meaning

Having to do with the palate, the roof of the mouth, as with the sounds made there. tree →

Examples

This is the modern classification of the letters into guttural, palatal, lingual, dental and labial sounds. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
Twenty-two letters are formed by the voice, impressed on the air, and audibly uttered in five situations, in the throat, guttural sounds; in the palate, palatals; by the tongue, linguals; through the teeth, dentals; and by the lips, labial sounds. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →

Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

On Mova

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