U and E

Stephen C. Carlson scarlson at mindspring.com
Sun Jun 16 18:18:26 EDT 2002


At 06:04 AM 6/16/02 -0700, waldo slusher wrote:
>Sorry for this easy one, but I have a very limited
>Greek dictionary/lexicon. 
>
>What does YILON mean? In the sense that these letters
>are named U YILON and E YILON

YILON means plain.  It was used by the Byzantine-era
grammarians to distinguish U and E from OI and AI,
respectively, which had the same sound in that era
(like German ü or French u) and later merged with I
to have its modern sound.

Stephen Carlson
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