Mater lectionis

Mater lectionis or Matres lectionis ( for "Mother of reading " or " mothers of reading " in Latin, Hebrew אם קריאה; Arab أم قراءة, DMG Umm Qira ʾ a) auxiliary sign in to read the vowels in the Semitic consonants writings. To this end consonants are mostly such as in Hebrew, the Vav ( "w" for " o " or " u" ) and iodine ( "j " for " e" or " i" ) is used in Arabic Vav and Ya. In Hebrew, a word with Mater lectionis occur, then one speaks of Plene - sensitive, but it can also occur without Mater lectionis, then one speaks of The defective spelling. The meaning of the word or the weighting does not change thereby. Through the development of puncturing the Pleneschreibung was no longer absolutely necessary for understanding, so that the Masoretic text as compared to the older manuscripts from Qumran preferably about the defective spelling. Much of the differences between the oldest and the later Masoretic manuscripts affects only the difference between plene and The defective spelling.