[B-Greek] Vowels in DAUID
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Sep 10 20:40:22 EDT 2003
At 8:06 PM -0400 9/10/03, <bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca> wrote:
>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?
Yes, it would; this is a major reason also why the Latin noun for "gospel"
is EVANGELIUM: it represents the pronunciation of the Greek EUAGGELION.
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Carl W. Conrad
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