Disputatio:Translitteratio Linguae Graecae
E Vicipaedia
Maybe this page should stay here Iustine and we should have a Vicipaedia:Translitteratio which contains the core information. That way we could expand this page to include history, obsolete greek letters, dialects, etc.--Ioshus (disp) 18:55, 20 Ianuarii 2007 (UTC)
[recensere] numquam?
I think the exception is Kalendas Graecas. --Alex1011 18:58, 20 Ianuarii 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry, Kalendas and month name. --Alex1011 18:58, 20 Ianuarii 2007 (UTC)
- Good point. And nice accidental(?) word play there, but the word you're thinking of is actually kappa --Iustinus 19:08, 20 Ianuarii 2007 (UTC)
[recensere] Poëta
Bonus question: is ποιητής > poëtes (rather than *poeetes) an exception to the rules, or is this a regular change? Unfortunately the only Greek words I can find offhand with the sequence οιη are either derivatives of ποιητής, or end in the suffix -οίη, so don't really count. If you can find another example of a Greek word with that sequence (or, I suppose, the similar sequence αιη) that does not belong to either of those classes, I will reward you with five bonus points ;) --Iustinus 21:19, 20 Ianuarii 2007 (UTC)
- Perhaps I can get half a bonus point for el:Ατόλλη Μίντγουαιη, which contains the sequence αιη? ;-) --UV 23:46, 20 Ianuarii 2007 (UTC)
- Ha! --Iustinus 23:50, 20 Ianuarii 2007 (UTC)
- ἀλοιητήρ 'thresher', some compounds of ο-stems with words starting in ιη (like προίημι), οἴησις 'opinion', and probably a few others (Perseus does let you do substring searches, but of course there's having the patience to sift through a few pages of -poie- compounds...). It seems a lot of them are dialect words or alternate, even in Greek, with the iota-less variant οη, which might have something to do with it. --Myces Tiberinus 00:23, 21 Ianuarii 2007 (UTC)
- While I'm at it, Lewis and Short have Poeēessa = Ποιήεσσα (a toponym) though they do also list a variant Poeessa (but then this doesn't seem to be the same reduction poeta underwent, either). --Myces Tiberinus 00:26, 21 Ianuarii 2007 (UTC)
- Whoa, that's impressive. You get the full 5 bonus points, and an aditional 5 for finding such a generally strange word. I guess that means it's safe to assume that poeta' and its derivatives is exceptional. --Iustinus 00:59, 21 Ianuarii 2007 (UTC)
