A mater lectionis (/ˌmeɪtər ˌlɛktiˈoʊnɪs/ MAY-tər LEK-tee-OH-niss, /ˌmɑːtər -/ MAH-tər -⁠; Latin for 'mother of reading', pl. matres lectionis /ˌmɑːtreɪs...

the mid back rounded vowel, [o̞], and is transliterated as an o. The mater lectionis letter which is usually employed with holam is vav, although in a few...

word; these are marked with an asterisk (*). Three letters act as matres lectionis: rather than being a consonant, they indicate a vowel. ʾālep̄ (ܐ), the...

Hebrew. In later Semitic languages, aleph could sometimes function as a mater lectionis indicating the presence of a vowel elsewhere (usually long). When this...

syllables, when the mater lectionis is yod (י) or aleph (א): בְּנֵי־ ([bəne], sons of), מוֹצֵא ([moˈtse], finding). When the mater lectionis is he (ה), the...

matres lectionis, which is when certain consonants are used to indicate vowels. There is a trend in Modern Hebrew towards the use of matres lectionis to indicate...

rarely, vav with a geresh: ו׳יליאם‎ – /ˈwiljam/. Vav can be used as a mater lectionis for an o vowel, in which case it is known as a ḥolam male, which in...

Eastern Aramaic language notable for its abundant use of vowel letters (mater lectionis with aleph, he only in final position, ‘ayin, waw, yud) in writing...

These consonants are called matres lectionis (New Latin: sg. māter lēctiōnis "mother of reading", pl. mātrēs lēctiōnis "mothers of reading", calques of...

<ου> as a consonant, <υ> as a consonant after vowels, <ου ω> as a mater lectionis Biblical Hebrew orthography refers to the various systems which have...

the four letters in the Tetragrammaton can individually serve as a mater lectionis. Several centuries later, between the 5th through 10th centuries CE...

( ָ‎ ), and in this sense functions like Aleph, Vav, and Yud as a mater lectionis, indicating the presence of a long vowel. However, it may also be used...

its function as a consonant, and, together with ya’ and wāw, is a mater lectionis, a consonant sign standing in for a long vowel (see below), or as support...

consonant sound—later on, pronounced [v]—or a long [u] vowel sound: see Mater Lectionis.) The first ones to use the name of Jesus something like "Yahshuah"...

equivalent ࠀ ʾālāf ∅ ~ [ʔ] Either silent or like in _uh-_oh. Also used as mater lectionis for certain open vowels. א ࠁ bīt [b] Like in bear. ב ࠂ gāʾman [g] Like...

Nabataean Aramaic. Proto-Aramaic long *ā is sometimes spelled with a mater lectionis w, as in *ʔināš > ʔnwš 'human', *θamānā > tmwnʔ 'eight (m.)'. This...

opposite to a mappiq, to show that the letters ה‎ or א‎ are silent (mater lectionis). The rafe generally fell out of use for Hebrew with the coming of...

but shuruq is used when the text uses full spelling (with waw as a mater lectionis). Each of the vowel phonemes could be allophonically lengthened; occasionally...

Rioplatense Spanish. Diphthong Hiatus (linguistics) List of phonetics topics Mater lectionis Syllabic consonant Voiced labio-velar approximant Ladefoged & Maddieson...

as can be seen in Chagigah 15a:6. The consonant yod (י) acts as a mater lectionis (mother of reading), usually indicating the vowel hiriq (ī). Secondly...

an equivalent word in the Arabic language, that is written with a mater lectionis alif (ا‎), a letter that indicates the long vowel "aa". Examples: The...

Hebrew might signify an absolutive case ending, marked by 'he' as a mater lectionis, notwithstanding common wisdom that makes a suffix impossible. Adding...

د, ذ Hē* h [h] 5 ‎ ה ه Waw* consonant: w mater lectionis: ū or ō (also u or o) consonant: [w] mater lectionis: [u] or [o] 6 ‎ ו و Zayn* z [z] 7 ‎ ז ز Ḥēṯ...

and when it should be on the line ء, or placed above the previous mater lectionis, such as in alif with hamzah above أ, or even if it should be used...

and Modern Hebrew, Yod represents a palatal approximant ([j]). As a mater lectionis, it represents the vowel [i]. At the end of words with a vowel or when...

distinguished by length, indicated by mater lectionis letters, and by stress, indicated by a combination of hamza and mater lectionis letters. Harari can be written...

transcribed with macrons (Āā, Ēē, Īī, Ōō, Ūū) and are written with mater lectionis ( for /o/ and /u/, for /i/, which are also used at the end of a word...

partly to compensate in clarity for the lack of written vowels when no mater lectionis was used for a vowel, though in the Middle Ages they sometimes omitted...

indicates that the letter was used as a mater lectionis in some phase of Phoenician or Aramaic. The matres lectionis functioned as occasional vowel markers...

phonology Great Vowel Shift Inherent vowel List of phonetics topics Mater lectionis Scale of vowels Table of vowels Vowel coalescence Words without vowels...