What's the current consensus regarding the time of this change? (Y to I and so on).
How did those rare medieval westerners who actually knew Greek pronounce Greek words before Reuchlin and Erasmus had it all "straightened out"?
Itacism
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Re: Itacism
They happened at different times. ει started to shift about 4th century BC, η about the 2nd AD. The diphthong οι united with upsilon in the 2nd or 3rd century, then both went to iota only toward the end of the millenium. (All this from Palmer).Deses wrote:What's the current consensus regarding the time of this change? (Y to I and so on).
They learned from Greeks, so I believe the pronounced everything like their tutors, i.e. as Modern Greek, iotas everywhere.How did those rare medieval westerners who actually knew Greek pronounce Greek words before Reuchlin and Erasmus had it all "straightened out"?
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/ — http://www.scholiastae.org/
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;
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Re: Itacism
Thank you. How about different dialects? I heard that in some dialects the changes were highly irregular. Cappadocian, for instance.annis wrote:They happened at different times. ει started to shift about 4th century BC, η about the 2nd AD. The diphthong οι united with upsilon in the 2nd or 3rd century, then both went to iota only toward the end of the millenium. (All this from Palmer).Deses wrote:What's the current consensus regarding the time of this change? (Y to I and so on).