Does Greek have Protelision similar to Latin?
Would diatribh\ e)/stiv go to diatrib\ 'stin or stay un protelided?
Elision and Prot' elision
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Re: Elision and Prot' elision
Greek does have protelision, but it's not terribly common (only epsilon suffers it) and only after certain words, like μή. (Smyth §76).yadfothgildloc wrote:Does Greek have Protelision similar to Latin?
Normally you'll get crasis, which is basically contraction across word boundaries. So, for τὸ ἐμόν, rather than *τὸ ’μόν you get τοὐμόν. (Smyth §62-69).
This is tricky. In Epic and elegiac verse the final eta was evidently shortened, but there's no change in writing to mark this. Other kinds of poets would reorder the words to avoid hiatus. Some prose authors would as well, especially Philodemus, whose conscious avoidance of hiatus for most words makes for quite difficult reading.Would diatribh\ e)/stiv go to diatrib\ 'stin or stay un protelided?
Most editions of prose texts do not write elision, or do so only occasionally, though we expect that elision still happened during reading.
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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