Re: YAEPT: uu/ii (< Quick Latin pronunciation question)
| From: | Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 26, 2008, 17:12 |
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Does anyone know how <ae> came to be pronounced as [i(:)] anyway?
Eugene
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
>>> > Does this also apply to the many family names in -Ciidae? (eg.
>>> Tropidophiidae,
>>> > Brontotheriidae)
>>>
>>> Not IME; those are /'i@daj/, not */'iajdaj/.
>>
>> Thanks. The final /aj/ does surprise me - I'd expected /i/.
>
> I've heard /ej/ there; I could believe /i/, but haven't heard it that
> way. IME the /i/ pronunciation of <ae> seems limited to words that
> have been more Anglicized and no longer "feel" like Latin.
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
>
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