[B-Greek] longest word

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri Jan 14 20:25:23 EST 2011


On Jan 14, 2011, at 8:01 PM, Shirley Rollinson wrote:

> Dear James,
> How about 
> the multipenult
> the protima
> or the archima
> 
> The semester is about to begin, and the silly season is upon us :-)
> Shirley Rollinson

In that case, as an alternative, I suggest:

the prototypical ultimate anteantepenult -- a term applicable to 
any and all syllables preceding the antepenult, (ir)regardless 
of the syllable's quantity. You may apply it without further 
ado to συπερκαλιφραγιλιστικεξπιαλιδώσιος with total 
confidence that you will not be mislabeling any of those 
antecedent syllables. One thing you can be sure of: you 
need never place an accent on a prototypical ultimate
anteantepenult. Another thing you can be sure of is that it
will never behave outrageously as if it were an enclitic. It
is much too embarrassed at having to suffer forever a
tonally neutered existence.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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