[B-Greek] DIKAIOS

TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com
Wed Oct 12 07:26:04 EDT 2005


 
So the dipthong should be pronounced as a dipthong? Or just accented like a  
dipthong?
 
Are denominative adjectives supposed to retain the pronunciation of the  root 
stem, or take on a new pronunciation based on the created dipthong?
 
I think I'm hearing a LOT of people just adding an ending, onto the noun  
root stem, rather than making it a new word with a dipthong. Is either way  
"wrong"? Is either way "better" or the standard way of doing it? Is there a  
general rule I should apply to situations like this involving denominative  
adjectives?
 
Thanks for teaching me the term "denominative adjective" :-)
 
Kat Doe
homemaker
 
 
In a message dated 10/12/2005 6:24:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
cwconrad at ioa.com writes:

That the  syllable was a diphthong in classical Attic  is attested by  
the  circumflex
over the iota in the marking of accents. On the other hand, in  terms  
of dervation,
DIKAIOS is what's called a "denominative"  adjective derived from a  
noun DIKH
("right, justice") the older  (and non-Attic) form of which is DIKA;  
the adjective
was formed  with the additive -I/OS-A-ON, and there may have been a time
when DIKAIOS  was a four-syllable word divided DI-KA-I-OS with an acute
accent on the A.  At any rate, in the classical period it was a  
diphthong AI  with
circumflex marked on the second vowel of the diphthong, as is  standard.


 



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