Two vowels in a row.
Attic greek word for queen.
I tell students this is the quotient.
Poppleton 1834 lexicon to herodotus by enoch powell 1938.
Cognates include mycenaean greek 𐀓𐀙𐀊 ku na ja sanskrit ग न gnā sanskrit जन jáni old armenian կին kin and old english cwēn english queen.
Attic greek like other dialects was originally written in a local variant of the greek alphabet.
Ancient greek phonology is the reconstructed phonology or pronunciation of ancient greek this article mostly deals with the pronunciation of the standard attic dialect of the fifth century bc used by plato and other classical greek writers and touches on other dialects spoken at the same time or earlier.
They draw their queen in the attic and label it quotient.
According to the classification of archaic greek alphabets which was introduced by adolf kirchhoff the old attic system belongs to the eastern or blue type as it uses the letters ψ and χ with their classical values ps and kʰ unlike western or red alphabets which used χ for.
If two vowels came together they preferred either to pronounce the two vowels together as one sound called a diphthong greek for double sound or to contract the two vowels to form either a single long vowel or diphthong cf.
So little composition is attempted nowadays outside the range of attic that i have refrained from introducing words and phrases that belong to other dialects.
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The quotient is located in the attic with the queen i help students see that both queen and quotient start with a q.
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Then i move to the word dividend.
Ancient greek speakers tended to avoid pronouncing two different vowel sounds in a row.
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This one is the easiest for the kiddos because it has two words in it divide and end.
The pronunciation of ancient greek is not known from direct observation but determined.