Terms

Because multiple terms exist to describe the same forms in Hebrew grammar, this list is lays out the terminology used in this projects and acts as a naming standard. Preference is to use Hebrew names with simplified spellings for particular variables and properties, but not for classes.

Form Used	Alternate Form
dagesh	dot
hatef	hateph, ultra-short
niqqud	points, pointing
sheva	shewa, shva
taam, taamim, taamei	ta’amei, ta’amei ha-miqra, accents*, cantillation
qamets qatan**	qamets hatuf

*the Syllable object has a property isAccented which is a linguistic property (i.e. stress), but the Cluster object has the property hasTaamim since this references the characters.

**non-critical spellings are “qamats” for “qamets” and “qamets qatan” to align with the Unicode names.