[B-Greek] Grammatical question:? double dots over a vowel

Bert de Haan b_dehaan at sympatico.ca
Wed Jun 28 18:28:10 EDT 2006


  "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
wrote:

"So Rev 19:6 ALLHLOUIA with daeresis over the iota means that this?
word has five syllables: AL-LH-LOU-I-A, not the four AL-LH-LOUI-A?
that it would normally have."

I would have thougth that ALLHLOUIA has five syllables either way and that 
the diaeresis indicates that OU is the diphthong rather than UI.  
AL-LH-LOU-I-A or  AL-LH-LO-UI-A

Bert de Haan.





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