[B-Greek] Vowels in DAUID

bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca
Thu Sep 11 19:58:34 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.

> Carl W. Conrad then wrote on Thu, 11 Sep 2003 07:57:32 -0400

> 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."
 
Maybe I am baring my ignorance for everyone to see, but I don't understand what it is that you are retracting.
could you explain?

Bert de Haan.




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