[B-Greek] rough breathing in the 1st century
Eric Weiss
papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 13 09:05:01 EDT 2006
Everything I've read says that the "rough breathing" was no longer used or sounded by
the 1st century (i.e., NT times). Yet we still see elided prepositions differentiated by
whether or not the initial vowel of the word they precede has a rough or smooth
breathing. If there was no longer an initial "h" sound, why did, e.g., EF' (for EPI) and
AF' (for APO) persist instead of EP' and AP', etc., being used before all vowel-initial
words? I.e., why is it AF' hAMARTIAS and AP' AGGELOU, and not AP'
hAMARTIAS/AGGELOU? Why is there still OUK and OUC, and not just OUK?
Eric S. Weiss
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