Re: EAK update
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 20, 2007, 8:58 |
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On 9/20/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> Philip Newton wrote:
> > Yes -- no doubt the reason why this is the only word written with
> > hypodiastole in Modern Greek.
>
> It's sometimes printed the same way in ancient texts also.
*nods* my point was more, I had heard that there were a number of
words (optionally) written with hypodiastole; of those, only ό,τι
survived into MG, perhaps because they felt that the difference was
important enough to retain the - otherwise unused - punctuation mark.
> > Όσο will then be homophonous, but that seems less of a problem than
> > the ό,τι/ότι case.
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> Ooops! "however many" should be όποσο
It should? By analogy, I suppose?
As far as I am aware, the AG form was merely όσο.
(If όποσο, why not, then, όποτι? όποσο is attested in dialects but
όποτι not? Or I'm just mistaken?)
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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