U and E
Randall Buth
ButhFam at compuserve.com
Sun Jun 16 18:21:04 EDT 2002
shalom Mark,
I suppose you won't mind an added comment:
>
>YILON means bear or simple. A simple U or a simple E are
>simple in that they are distiguished from other combinations
>of vowels with similar sounds.
>
>I was surprised to not find it in Mounce, although I don't know why,
>nor did I search too hard (it may be hidden there somewhere).
>
>But Mounce does clarify the rest of the alphabet, note these
>comments on pronunciation of U and C:
>
>Upsilon, U YILON, u as in German u (two dots above it, of course)
>Chi, ch as in loch (note: pronounced with a decided Scottish<
Your explanation of "simple in that they are distinguished from
other combinations of vowels" left me confused.
It's even easier than you might imagine.
E YILON (e-psilon) meant the simple, one-symbol way of writing
the sound for AI. {E and AI were pronounced the same.)
U-YILON (u-psilon) meant the simple, one-symbol way of writing the
sound for OI. (U and OI were pronounced the same.)
Naturally, these are names that arose from the Hellenistic period and
later.
ERRWSQE
Randall Buth
www.biblicalulpan.org
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