Re: Eli, Eloi (was: Passover/Easter (was: Italogallic in Zera,and other languages.))
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 1, 2000, 13:32 |
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At 22:18 30.4.2000 +0100, Raymond Brown wrote:
>Yep - fits exactly - and the final -i of the Greek could be long; there
>was no difference in spelling between long or short _i_.
Except that by that time EI could be used as an unambiguous spelling for
/i:/, whereas H was still /e:/ in some places. Cf. the coptic mapping: E =
/e/, H = /e:/, I = /i/, EI = /i:/! (And /ei/ = EEI or HI, BTW...)
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson
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