palatal

«palatal» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Having to do with the palate, the roof of the mouth, as… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

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

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and 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.

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

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Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «palatal» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.