Re: YAEPT: uu/ii (< Quick Latin pronunciation question)

Quoting ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> >While at it, how about the botanical -aceae?
>
> [...'ej.Si.aj] chez moi....
Thanks.

It may amuse someone to know that in Swedish, this ending is rendered as
['A:s@]. It may not be entirely reasonable to infer that "eae" spells schwa.

> > > Also (still IME), anything that's spelled -ii and pronounced -/aj/
> > > can only be a fake word.  The faux-Latin plurals of "Elvis" and
> > > "virus", for instance, are most plausibly spelled  "Elvi" and "viri",
> > > not "Elvii" or "virii".
> >
> >The *real* fake-Latin pl of "Elvis" being, of course, _Elves_.
>
> Right, unless it's an i-stem??? (acc. sg. elvim) Don't they have nom/acc. pl
> in -i:s ?? Would we pronounce it ['Elvi:z]??? Elvibus is amusing too (these
> plurals could well occur in Las Vegas, I guess)
Nom pl -e:s, acc pl -e:s or -i:s, according to Wikipedia. I seem to recall
reading that the -i:s ending was favoured until the 1st century AD, then fell
out of use.

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Andreas Johansson