Re: YAEPT: uu/ii (< Quick Latin pronunciation question)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 26, 2008, 16:59 |
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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)
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>> Not IME; those are /'i@daj/, not */'iajdaj/.
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> 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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