[B-Greek] Accenting on Indeclinable Proper Names

Stephen Carlson stemmatic at gmail.com
Wed May 11 13:08:40 EDT 2011


On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Robert Stump <robertstump at gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed last night while reviewing the vocabulary of the first
> chapter of John's gospel that all of the indeclinable proper names
> therein are accented on the ultima. NAQANAHL, ISRAHL, IWSEF, NAZARET
> etc. Is this a coincidence or is there a pattern here that one could
> expect to see repeated elsewhere.

Hebrew words and names are often accented on the last syllable.

Stephen Carlson
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Stephen C. Carlson
Graduate Program in Religion
Duke University


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