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RE: Anchiton as a transcription from Greek - Helmut Winkler - 10-03-2020
Since the two lines seem to be an invocation, anchiton should be a vocative. Which does not help much, since nominative and v. are in most cases identical in Latin and Greek
And if we start thinking about Greek words, could ola be derived from Greek olos and meaan everything? I had been thinking for some time of this possibbilityy, but thought it to farfetched
RE: Anchiton as a transcription from Greek - RenegadeHealer - 10-03-2020
(10-03-2020, 07:29 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Yeah, when I pronounce "anchiton" in my head I say "an[x]iton" with a velar fricative. Kind of like a H with the back of the tongue more towards the back of the throat. For phonetics discussions it's a shame that our lingua franca does not have a sound like this.
If the word is of Greek origin (which we still don't know) this is probably the intended pronunciation.
You know it's funny, after I made that last comment about English, French, and Spanish speakers being the weird ones when it comes to pronouncing "ch", it dawned on me that the UK, France, and Spain all have minority dialects that pronounce "ch" the correct, i.e. velar way.
I'll sometimes use the Greek letter khi (χ) when I want to specify this sound or something like it.
I've only done a little bit of self-study in Greek, but my understanding is that in many time periods and dialects, the letters gamma and ny had some interchangeability, and both could be pronounced as different nasal consonants when followed by certain other consonants. My point is, if we're giving any serious consideration to the possibility that "anchiton" might be of Greek origin, broadening the search to include "agchiton" might be worthwhile. Anyone with much more familiarity with Greek than me, feel free to correct me on this.
RE: Anchiton as a transcription from Greek - Helmut Winkler - 11-03-2020
Ny was and is written as Gamma before Kappa and Chi, but the only word I can think of is ankistron, which is a hook