[B-Greek] Eta

Nichael Cramer nichael at sover.net
Thu Jun 24 14:28:03 EDT 2010


Sarah Madden wrote:
>Sarah --
>A minor correction from one Sarah to another: the eta is indicated by the
>CAPITAL "H" in the b-greek transliteration scheme. The lowercase "h"
>indicates the rough breathing mark before a vowel (e.g., hUMEIS = you).

As an aside, H=eta is one of the "false friends" that often pop up in casual
transcriptions of Greek text.  Most notably when the acronym/nomen sacrum
IHS (iota-eta-sigma) for "Jesus" is latinized into an abbreviation 
for something
like "In Hoc Signo".

And, of course, everyone here is presumably familar with the Greek 
manuscript in which
the Hebrew writing of the tetragramatton (yod-heh-vau-heh) was "Hellenized"
into the similar-appearing "PIPI" (pi-iota-pi-iota).

N
(And, I suppose we shouldn't mention the ads for the movie "My Big 
Fat Greek Wedding"
in which the e's in "Greek" were printed as capital Sigmas....) 




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