[B-Greek] DIKAIOS

TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com
Tue Oct 11 21:52:03 EDT 2005


 
LOL, I just opened a barrel of monkeys :-)
 
OK,  I'm using Erasmian with the AI sounding like "eye". If the  syllable 
breaks at an iota it sounds like "ee". If an iota falls in the middle  of a 
syllable it sounds like "i" in pit.
 
Strong often breaks a syllable like the "dik" in (dik-ah-yos). I'm not  
worried about all that.
 
I'm focused on repeatedly hearing the iota moved to the next syllable,  
instead of being pronounced with the alpha as a dipthong. I want to make sure  I'm 
putting the iota with the correct syllable. I saw that there was a root word  
ending in alpha and I'm assuming all this has to do with that?
 
Kat
 
In a message dated 10/11/2005 9:30:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
cwconrad at ioa.com writes:

On Oct  11, 2005, at 9:12 PM, TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com wrote:

> Is DIKAIOS  pronounced (dik-ah-yos)? Is the AI a dipthong? It's  
>  accented  like
> a dipthong, but seems to usually be pronounced  like it isn't.

Yes, it is a diphthong. I've always divided it as  DI-KAI-OS. I think  
that pronunciation
as DI-KA-YOS is wrong. My  Erasmian would make it DEE-KYE-OS, but I'd  
expect  Koine
pronunciation would be more DEE-KAY-OS (with AY as in "May" or "de-  
lay").


 



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