At 08:22 PM 5/20/98 +0100, jonmac wrote:
>
>Light-heartedly, is there anyone out there qualified in ancient languages?
Does anyone have
>a divergent view or should we do a 'volte-face' and write it in Ancient
>Greek instead?
>
>John Macartney
Can't really do it right without a Greek font, but
in Greek, you have 3 choices of gender/plurality and
two choices of pronounciation.
In the order I would choose them:
Modern (Demotic) pronounciation:
Triumph plural
Philoi Triumphwn (fee'-lee Tri-umph-own', the 'w' is omega)
Triumph feminine singular (my wife's choice)
Philoi Triumphns (fee'-lee Tri-umph'-eese, the 'n' is eta)
Triumph masculine/neuter singular (sounds goofy)
Philoi Triumphou (fee'-lee Tri-umph-oo')
Ancient pronounciation (don't grade me on this one):
Triumph plural
Philoi Triumphwn (fee'-loi Triumph-own', the 'w' is omega)
Triumph feminine singular
Philoi Triumphns (fee'-loi Tri-umph'-ase, the 'n' is eta)
Triumph masculine/neuter singular
Philoi Triumphou (fee'-loi Triumph-ow')
Of course, in Greek Triumph can be translated as Nike....
Cliff Hansen
chansen@exis.net
1966 TR-4A CTC 64615L
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