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>>I was thinking OI could've been [ø:] (o-slash), or another diphthong [øy],
at
>>some time, then went to [y]. And could AI have been [E:] or [æ:] (ash) as
>>well?
>
>All possible - we just don't know the details. Indeed, Ionian eta could
>well have been [æ:] rather than [E:] if one recalls that early [a:] become
>eta in Ionoan and, generally, Attic Greek. On the coastal belt of
>south-east Wales (where I spent 22 years of my like) RP [A:] is [æ:], so
>the Anglophone native of Cardiff call their city ["k_h æ:dIf] :)
Hehe.. this is exactly why the character hellenized as <H> and romanized as
<ee> in Henaudute is pronounced /{:/. (And there's a similar reason for <z>
being /dZ/...)
*Muke!
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