[B-Greek] Fwd: Re: TREIS KAI DEKA
Larry Baker
bakerlarryn at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 23 23:30:26 EDT 2005
--- "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at ioa.com> wrote:
> From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at ioa.com>
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:52:49 -0400
> To: B-Greek B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> CC: "N.E. Barry Hofstetter" <nebarry at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] TREIS KAI DEKA
>
>
> On Sep 23, 2005, at 1:23 PM, N.E. Barry Hofstetter
> wrote:
>
> >> From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at ioa.com>
> >> Date: Fri Sep 23 12:18:41 CDT 2005
> >> To: B-Greek B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> >> Cc: eunice.yantzi at utoronto.ca, "N.E. Barry
> Hofstetter"
> >> <nebarry at verizon.net>
> >> Subject: TREIS KAI DEKA
> >>
> >
> >
> >> Would list-members please not completely switch
> the topic and retain
> >> unrelated subject-headers?
> >>
> >
> > Deepest apologies, O Great One. Sincerely did not
> mean to offen.
>
> Apologies are due the Great List. Don't do it too
> offen. The truth
> is, however,
> that the message about Greek for "thirteen" was
> piggy-backed on the
> "Authors Sue Google Over Library Initiative" thread
> before you
> responded.
>
> >
> >>> TRESKAIDEKA, isn't it?
> >>>
> >>
> >> That sounds a bit Latin; Smyth gives TREIS KAI
> DEKA or TRIA KAI DEKA.
> >>
> >
> > Ah, I knew there was another form I had seen
> somewhere, couldn't
> > remember it.
> >
> > But what does it sound Latin? Except for the
> spacing, your first
> > example is the same as what I wrote? Am I missing
> something?
>
> You wrote TRES (KAI DEKA): TRES is Latin for three;
> I wrote TREIS
> (KAI DEKA).
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University
> (Emeritus)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828)
> 675-4243
> cwconrad2 at mac.com
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
As an additional aside, with an "i" instead of "e" we
have the only, actual English cognate [albeit, more
Anglicized than transliterated] with "kai" in
technical term used in psychology -
"triskaidekaphobia" = fear of 13.
Larry N. Baker
Moore, OK
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com
More information about the B-Greek
mailing list