Pronunciation of EIMI? and What's a CTL?
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Mon Dec 30 11:16:16 EST 2002
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:01:46 -0500 Brian McCarthy <mccartbs at utrc.utc.com>
wrote:
> 1: Where is the accent on EIMI? The first of the second syllable?
If it is on the first syllable with the circumflex accent (EI=MI), it means "I
go." If the accent is on the second syllable (EIMI/), it means "I am."
> 2: In commentaries, what does "CTL." (i.e. Chi Tau Lambda period) stand
> for? I surmise from the context that it means "etc.", "and following",
> perhaps (forgive me) "yada yada yada". But what does it stand for?
It should be KTL (i.e. Kappa, Tau, Lambda). It stands for KAI TA LOIPA, which
means "and the rest." It is the Greek equivalent to "et cetera".
Stephen Carlson
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