[B-Greek] Vowels in DAUID
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Sep 11 07:57:32 EDT 2003
At 8:40 PM -0400 9/10/03, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> ...
>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.
I just want to retract this last silly comment. Of course it is true that
there was no distinction in Latin writing between consonantal and vocalic
U, and I really have no clear sense of when the intervocalic -U- in Latin
began being pronounced as a "V."
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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