[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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