Timeline for How did the ancient Greeks say out loud "1" (which was written in another way)?
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| Mar 11, 2015 at 10:27 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 13, 2014 at 22:09 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackLinguist/status/521784852245258241 | ||
| Oct 7, 2014 at 13:01 | comment | added | Vincenzo Oliva | @Midas I see, thank you. I did want the archaic one. | |
| Oct 6, 2014 at 12:17 | comment | added | Midas | @Numberlover It depends also which period of time you refer to. Ancient Greeks in archaic times were saying hen, while some ancient Greeks in Hellenistic times may have said e̞n. | |
| Oct 5, 2014 at 13:04 | vote | accept | Vincenzo Oliva | ||
| Oct 5, 2014 at 12:58 | history | edited | Vincenzo Oliva | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 5, 2014 at 10:35 | answer | added | fdb | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 5, 2014 at 7:23 | comment | added | Vincenzo Oliva | I've also made another edit. | |
| Oct 5, 2014 at 7:22 | history | edited | Vincenzo Oliva | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 5, 2014 at 7:09 | comment | added | Vincenzo Oliva | @TKR So I guess that in a general context (I need this for a mathematical thing), I should go for hen, right? | |
| Oct 5, 2014 at 7:07 | comment | added | Vincenzo Oliva | @jlawler I've added my authority in the body of the question. | |
| Oct 5, 2014 at 7:07 | history | edited | Vincenzo Oliva | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 5, 2014 at 4:15 | comment | added | TKR | Whatever the notation used, presumably Greeks would have pronounced it as their word for "one", which was heis (masc.), mia (fem.), hen (neut.). (@jlawler, eka is Sanskrit.) | |
| Oct 5, 2014 at 2:59 | comment | added | jlawler | Where's your authority for "back in time there was another notation, using the vertical sign"? And what makes you think that anybody would know how they pronounced that sign back then -- if they pronounced it -- except to say something like /eka/? | |
| Oct 5, 2014 at 1:52 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 5, 2014 at 1:25 | comment | added | curiousdannii♦ | Are you asking how they wrote and said their word for 'one'? If so that's not really on-topic. | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 23:10 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 4, 2014 at 23:09 | history | asked | Vincenzo Oliva | CC BY-SA 3.0 |