Re: How to pronounce "Anemoi"

On Jan 16, 9:33 pm, "jerry_fried...@xxxxxxxxx"
<jerry_fried...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 16, 5:01 pm, "Philip Eden" <philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom>
wrote:



"Paul Wolff" <bounc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Derek Turner <frde...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
In modern Greek it would be a-nem-i, classicists would make the last
syllable -oy. The stress in Greek is marked by an accent, it's on the
alpha so A-nem-i (modern) or A-nem-oy (classical)

I'd start with a simple common word like anemometer and work back from
there.  It seems to lead to a similar conclusion on the classical front.
--

'Anemometer' is, of course, usually pronounced with the primary
stress on the 'o' and a secondary stress on the initial 'a'. But we
also have an instrument - a self-registering anemometer - which
we call an 'anemograph'. Throughout my lifetime it has always
had the primary stress on the 'e', and I have heard it with either
a long or a short 'e' in roughly equal measure. Being faithful to
the Greek would, I guess, be best achieved by shifting the
primary stress to the 'a' and giving a secondary stress to 'graph',
but it sounds very strange.

There's also the anemone or windflower, accented on the second
syllable.  What all these words have in common is an accent on the
third-last syllable.

Though strangely enough, Greek "anemone" is accented on the third
syllable, according to

http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%BD%CE%B5%CE%BC%CF%8E%CE%BD%CE%B7

(Take that!)

--
Jerry Friedman
.

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