[B-Greek] B-Greek transliteration vs Strong's
Katb4now at aol.com
Katb4now at aol.com
Sat Jan 10 17:33:48 EST 2004
Thanks Ted!
I hadn't thought about a double vowel NOT being a dipthong.
It still doesn't seem to apply to what I'm seeing in the phonetic spellings
though. There are a LOT of "a"s rather than "ah"s for the alfas
As for Strong's AI. He does NOT write it out as "eye". He writes it as
"ahee". I can say "eye" :-) I just can't say "ahee" very easily :-(
What lexicon are you using that has pronunciation helps?! The only one I've
seen so far is Strong's! I'd like another pronunciation resource that uses
"eye" for AI if possible.
Kathleen Borsari
homeschool mom.
In a message dated 1/10/2004 1:57:36 PM Eastern Standard Time,
tedsmath at yahoo.com writes:
Katb4now at aol.com wrote:
> What can A be, other than:
> final,
> part of a dipthong,
> followed by a consonant?
A diphthong is a pair of vowels that "unite" to make a sound (or set
of sounds). Two vowels can be together without being a diphthong.
One example is in the word ABRAAM. Granted, that's not a native
Greek word. Another example is in the word LAOS. (However, my
lexicon says that the A in LAOS is "long".)
> AI in Strong's-
> AI (ahee)
> That is AWFULLY awkward to say!
Actually it's easier than you might think. Say the words "I", "eye",
"aye". (I'm assuming that you and I speak the same dialect of
English. If not, no offense is intended.)
Ted Shoemaker
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