Mathias Rösel
Wed, 23 Mar 2005 04:45:13 -0800
"Jon Murphy" <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > With many of you I have difficulty finding the "familiar Greek" LEUTIKA as > my Greek dictionary uses Greek characters. Is this lambda-epsilon > (eta)-upsilon-tau-iota-kappa-alpha? alpha (spritus asper)- lambda - iota - epsilon - ypsilon - tau - iota - kappa - alpha > And what is the HA, there is no "h" as a character. there is no letter, but, well, there is a character, as you say yourself, i. e. that little left-curved apostrophe which is put above an initiating vowel, called spiritus asper. It signifies the H-sound at the beginning of a word. In txt-format, Greek characters are not possible, so the spiritus has to be transcribed, and there you are: halieutika, fishing tools. Regards, Mathias -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html