Re: Quick Latin pronunciation question
| From: | Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 25, 2008, 6:13 |
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"Radius, radii" is an example. And "-ii-" words I presume should be
more or less plural-only in English.
If I'm not mistaken they're pronounced as sequences of the vowel. I
suppose one could detect a faint glide in between if one so chose.
Then again I'm not necessarily correct. But that's how I pronounce my
Latin. I'd like to be corrected too, if I'm wrong.
Eugene
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
> In Latin, how were ii and uu pronounced? I think they usually occur
> between a root and an affix, for instance "tuum" or "Patricii". "uu" in
> English borrowings is of course pronounced as either /ju:@/ (continuum)
> or /ju:/ (vacuum) with presumably no historical reason. I can't think
> of any English words with "ii" in them from Latin though.
>
> --
> Tristan.
>
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