[B-Greek] Iota subscript with uppercase?

bgreek at ntresources.com bgreek at ntresources.com
Sun Nov 23 20:20:21 EST 2003


Does koine and/or classical treat the iota in, say, the word hAiDHS or 
HiDEIN [pluperf of OIDA] as an iota *subscript* ~if~ the word is 
capitalized? I know that it is not *written* below an uppercase letter; if 
written, it appears (I assume) as a normal iota to the right of the capital.

I hadn't ever thought of this situation, so in the Unicode version of my 
Galilee font I did not include the code points for uppercase letters with 
"iota adscript"--assuming that they didn't occur in the NT (partly because 
the Unicode chart shows the iota as a smaller iota, but I've been told that 
the Unicode charts are in error at this point). I don't know if either of 
the two forms cited above do occur in the NT (or if there might be other 
such instances that do), but would guess that some such combination is at 
least theoretically possible.

(I'm at home tonight, so don't have any resources at hand to check.)

Thanks,

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