dagesh lene

English

Etymology

From dagesh + Latin lēne (soft, weak).

Noun

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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