Etymology

dagesh lene

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Latin lēne
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromlēne“soft, weak”
  2. English todaydagesh lene

From dagesh + Latin lēne (“soft, weak”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.