[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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