Rough breathings in compound words

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Sep 3 16:34:22 EDT 2002


At 3:50 PM -0400 9/3/02, Erik Westwig wrote:
>Let me revisit this one more time.
>
>I think I picked an unfortunate choice of example, since the tau --> theta
>transformation in hORAW --> KAQORAW complicates things.  Instead, how about
>the word hOSIOS and its negative using the alpha-privative prefix, ANOSIOS.
>If the former is pronounced "Haw see os", do you pronounce the latter "an
>HAW see os" or "an AW see os".  I realize there probably is not a definitive
>answer to this question, but I am curious how most of you would say this
>word.

But in this instance, I think, the aspiration before the hOSIOS evanesces
as a consequence of compounding with the alpha-privative prefix.
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Carl W. Conrad
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