Re: Jewish names
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 1, 2000, 17:01 |
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 16:21:22 +0200, BP Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
>The sequence omega-upsilon can only be disyllabic. Ambiguity arises only
>with alpha, epsilon, eta, omicron before upsilon and alpha, epsilon,
>omicron, upsilon before iota.
IIRC, omega+ypsilon and eta+ypsilon were diphongs in verbal forms
where the augment or the reduplication syllable could contract with
the root vowel. That is, word-initially. Dunno about other positions.
Basilius