Re: Greek letter names (was Greek & Latin vowels etc)

On Thursday, March 4, 2004, at 10:13  PM, Ray Brown wrote:

>  2. śa:de:  (similar to modern upper-case M, but the 'valley' in the
> middle
> comes only half-way down) whose sound was probably /s_e/ (X_SAMPA for
> velarized or pharyngealized s, i.e. "emphatic s" of Arabic, which in
> real
> IPA is 's' with a tilde through the middle of it). The corresponding
> Hebrew letter is pronounced /ts/ in modern Hebrew. This letter was
> used in
> Crete, Thera, Melos, Sikinos, Corinth, Korkyra (Corcyra, Corfu),
> Sikyon,
> Argolis and Lokris to denote Greek /s/. The Doric name for the letter
> is
> 'san' which suggests a conflation of the Semitic names śa:de: and ši:n
> (see below).
> Ray
>

Eeeep confusion alert!
Since |S-acute| is usually used in Semitic linguistics for the Hebrew
|sin|, Lateral-S, using it for Emphatic-S is cognitively dissonant. :-P


-Stephen (Steg)
  "dos iz nit der šteg."