[B-Greek] PROSCWMEN and ORQOI

Eric Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 15 09:05:12 EDT 2007


Unfortunately, my 1300-page SYNEKDEMOS (wrongly transliterated by me earlier as 
  Synechdemos) is at home. The Greek-English abridgement that is primarily the daily or 
  weekly prayers from the Synekdemos uses the full accent system - i.e., acute, circumflex 
  and grave accents. It doesn't have the Divine Liturgy in it, but I am almost sure that the 
  Divine Liturgy part I looked at to confirm PROSCWMEN and ORTHOI is fully accented, but 
  I'll have to confirm this later. If Fr. Silver has his copy handy, he can check this. The only 
  online Greek versions of St. J's DL that I can find use a monotonic system.
   
  I know that there was no circumflex over the omega in PROSCWMEN. Since a word that is 
  not followed by an enclitic would only have one accent, PROSCWMEN couldn't be both 
  proparoxytone and properispomenon, could it? I.e., it would NOT have a circumflex over the 
  omega if it also has an acute on the antepenult, would it?
   
  "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
  
Well, of course, I don't know what text you're looking at, but if 
it's a modern
monotonic text, there would only be an acute accent and it would fall 
on the
accented syllable -- even if it's an ancient text. Of course in a 
polytonic Greek
PROSCWMEN would have a circumflex over the omega; ORQOI would
have an acute on the ultima either way.

cwc




  Eric S. Weiss
  

 
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