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

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 5:26
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:31 AM, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote: >> Is (Class.Gk) >> epsilon-lambda-beta-iota-sigma a possible Gk. word (I'm thinking of that >> -lb- cluster) > > Good question; I'm not sure. > > *checks dictionary* I find "olbos" = "Glück, Segen, Heil, Reichtum, > Macht", so "elbis" should be fine phonotactically and morphologically. > >> modern Gk ['Elvis]. > > No, probably either --> ['Elvi] (like "dynamis, polis") or --> > [El'viDa] (like "elpis, frontis"), depending on the declension of the > noun in ancient Greek. Feminine, in either case.
Though if you wanted a masculine ['Elvis] in modern Greek, you could get it by spelling it epsilon-lambda-beta-*eta*-sigma (derived from a word with the same spelling in ancient Greek). (Other possibilities include ['ElvOs] < *elbos and ['Elvas] < *elps. ['Elvus] only as a genitive of a neuter nominative *elbos. And ['ElvEs] as plural nom/acc of the feminine ['Elvi] :D) Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>