Pronunciation of Iesous

Bill Ross wross at farmerstel.com
Thu May 20 09:54:27 EDT 1999


{Jim}
More like EE-YA-SOUS  where the double e's signify a long e sound and ya
signify almost an iota/yod vocalic.

{Bill}
Jim, are you sure it wouldn't be two vowels? I'd heard that when a word
begins with Iota, in actual practice it tends to be pronounced like a Y -
sort of like Yea-soos.

I think it should be pointed out that it is intended to sound like a Hebrew
Yod, there not being a corresponding letter in the Greek. It is, in reality,
a transliteration from Hebrew to Greek. Also, Yacob become Iakwb, etc.

It should further be noted that the path of corruption from a Y sound to a J
sound occurred from a similar transliteration factor from Greek to Latin
(where an "i" is written like a J) and German (where a J is pronounced as a
Y) and English (where we screw up everything).




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