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A spurious diphthong (or false diphthong) is an Ancient Greek vowel that is etymologically a long vowel but written exactly like a true diphthong ει, ου (ei, ou).[1]
^Smyth. A Greek grammar for colleges. § 25: diphthongs.
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A spuriousdiphthong (or false diphthong) is an Ancient Greek vowel that is etymologically a long vowel but written exactly like a true diphthong ει,...
probably as /eː/. From the late 4th century BC in Attic, the spuriousdiphthong (pseudo-diphthong) ει (now notating both etymological ει and etymological ε̄)...
(written ει: spuriousdiphthong) PIE *trey-es → Proto-Greek trees → Attic trēs = τρεῖς "three" e + o → ō (written ου: spuriousdiphthong) early *genes-os...
/o/, the new letter Ω representing long /ɔː/, and the so-called "spuriousdiphthong" OY representing long /o:/.(pp 56, 71) Although the Greeks took the...
Lesbian émmen, émmenai; Thessalian, Boeotian eîmen ~ Attic/Ionic eînai (spuriousdiphthong) "to be" In the Lesbian dialect this ending also extends to the thematic...
correspond to original diphthongs they are called "genuine diphthongs", in all other cases, they are called "spuriousdiphthongs". In Attic, some cases...
mark is written on a diphthong or vowel written with a digraph such as ει, it is always written above the second vowel of the diphthong, not the first, for...
of Greek writing in books printed today is that when there is a long diphthong ending in /i/, as in ᾳ, ῃ, ῳ (āi, ēi, ōi) /aːi̯ ɛːi̯ ɔːi̯/, the iota is...
o or o + e leads to ou, and e + e to ei, which are in this case spuriousdiphthongs. In general, the accent after contraction copies the accent before...
or contraction to eta or omega, in contrast to Attic ei and ou (spuriousdiphthongs). Severe Doric -ō ~ Attic -ou (second-declension genitive singular)...
The position of the accent in original liquid diphthongs in East Slavic, when the vowel of the diphthong was o or e. Such sequences develop into bisyllabic...
n; Rhotic: r; Approximants: l, j, w Pure: i, e, a, o, u; ā, ē, ī, ō, ū Diphthongs: ai, ei, ou Classes of nouns roughly match those in Latin: long a-stems...
its effect on the preceding vowel lost (the change of the "u" to the diphthong "ua") as would have had to occur if Yeshu were derived from Yeshua in...
John Galt and Robert Louis Stevenson. It produced an easily understood spurious Scots that was very popular with English readers and on the English stage...
Dutch keizer ([kɛizɛr]).[citation needed] In Vulgar Latin, the original diphthong [ae̯] first began to be pronounced as a simple long vowel [ɛː]. Then,...
writing as the "curial" style, still further abridging by omitting the diphthongs "ae" and "oe", and likewise all lines and marks of punctuation. The Abbreviatores...
tie bar is used: ⟨u͜i⟩, especially when it is difficult to tell if the diphthong is characterized by an on-glide or an off-glide or when it is variable...
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