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Re: The Swallow Song, morphemic breakdown

From:Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Saturday, July 21, 2001, 9:06
"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:

> [7] _touperthuron_ here is an instance of crasis: phonological joining > of two short vowels to form a long in order to avoid hiatus. The unjoined > variant here would be _to uperthuron_.
I did of course mean "_to huperthuron_". Ditto to any obvious rough- breathing that I left out. =================================== Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier "Aspidi men Saiôn tis agalletai, hên para thamnôi entos amômêton kallipon ouk ethelôn; autos d' exephugon thanatou telos: aspis ekeinê erretô; exautês ktêsomai ou kakiô" - Arkhilokhos