Timeline for Why did some Hebrew words beginning with Yod become transliterated into Latin as "hi?"
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| Jul 9, 2018 at 22:15 | answer | added | Alex | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 12:57 | comment | added | Cerberus | @LukeSawczak: Hilarious! How very interesting that the h should already have been dropped by the first century BC, even among the upper middle classes. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 3:44 | comment | added | Luke Sawczak | @Cerberus My memory failed me. It was no play but Catullus mocking Arrius in poetry: "Chommoda dicebat, si quando commoda / vellet dicere, et insidias Arrius hinsidias, / et tum mirifice sperabat se esse locutum, / cum quantum poterat dixerat hinsidias." The authors of my textbook translate: "Arrius, whenever he meant commoda, would say chommoda, and hinsidias for insidias, and then he was sure he had spoken splendidly when he said at the top of his lungs, hinsidias." (For chommoda, he wrongly assumes it's an original Greek /x/.) | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 15:45 | comment | added | Cerberus | @LukeSawczak: Splendid! Do you happen to know which play this was, or which author, or some hint about the plot? Then I could Google it. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 1:06 | comment | added | Colin Fine | Job, unlike the other examples, actually starts with a vocalic i in Hebrew. | |
| S Jan 22, 2018 at 17:54 | history | suggested | Andrew T. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
improved readability (reduced too many commas at the beginning), list formatting
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| Jan 22, 2018 at 9:15 | comment | added | Omar and Lorraine | @LukeSawczak that sounds familiar. I am reminded of an English musical (I can't remember the name) where this exact thing happens to a young woman from London. And this H/no H thing is a phenomenon which explains some Algonquian sound changes too. | |
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| Jan 22, 2018 at 3:10 | comment | added | Matthew T. Scarbrough | I am aware that most no longer pronounced the ⟨h⟩, thank you. | |
| Jan 22, 2018 at 3:08 | vote | accept | Matthew T. Scarbrough | ||
| Jan 22, 2018 at 3:08 | vote | accept | Matthew T. Scarbrough | ||
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| Jan 21, 2018 at 17:54 | comment | added | Luke Sawczak | Incidentally, note that not all Latin speakers pronounced H by the time the Bible was being translated. There's some classical Roman play in which a numbskull (named Arrius, I think), knowing that upper-class folk still pronounce the "h" in "honour" and so on but having no idea which words have an "h", prepends it at random and is mocked by his friends. Obviously the explanations below are more coherent, but this could give you an idea of the lack of practical difference it might have made. | |
| Jan 21, 2018 at 15:24 | answer | added | b a | timeline score: 25 | |
| Jan 21, 2018 at 13:52 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackLinguist/status/955075668072718336 | ||
| Jan 21, 2018 at 11:32 | history | edited | Matthew T. Scarbrough | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I can't gramer ;P
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| Jan 21, 2018 at 9:03 | history | asked | Matthew T. Scarbrough | CC BY-SA 3.0 |