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Art/Literary - Linguistics / Vocab Item | | English term or phrase: to fit into (fill?) the grid | Greetings,
Apologies in advance for a certain vagueness, as this is from a half-remembered Hebrew course at Ulpan Akiva many years ago.
The word used for grid was משבצת. If I remember rightly, the teacher was using grids as analogy for the process of coining new terms in Hebrew, the idea being that each square in the grid represents a space in the language which must be filled by a newly-coined Hebrew word.
I wonder if this metaphor is still used.
All the best, and many thanks,
Simon |
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| | להוסיף את המילה מתאימה למשבצת | Explanation:
Don't know about continued use. It could have been that specific teacher's method.
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sorry, it should say המתאימה, accidentally dropped the ה |
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| Grading comment many thanks very good indeed
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18 mins confidence:  למלא את החסר
Explanation:
The specific metaphore you mention (with משבצת) probably doesn't exist in this context anymore.
Yet, what you refer to is perfectly covered by the above. I'd even go further and use a linguistic take on this:
למלא את המחסר
Since מחסר is exactly the linguistic term used in Hebrew for a lacuna in the language (I.e. a word for spam (UK English...)).
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2 hrs confidence:  לשבץ
Explanation:
When coining a new Hebrew word, a three-letter root is filled into an existing grammatical model. This can be called שיבוץ even nowadays, though it is neither a metaphor, nor a term. It's merely a way to describe the process.
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