[B-Greek] Vowels in DAUID

bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca
Wed Sep 10 20:06:08 EDT 2003


At a little Greek club I attend, we were talking about the three vowels in DAUID. We were trying to decide whether the AU or the UI is the diphthong.
Looking in the archives I found the following concerning the pronunciation of DAUID; 
'(Snip)...but certainly in the
NT era an intervocalic U was pronounced as a "v"'.

Considering this, would it be correct to say that that there is no diphthong in DAUID but that U is acting as a consonant?
If this is so, would this also count for EUAGGELIZW and EUAGGELION? 
Thanks in advance.
Bert de Haan.
  

 




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