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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Greek on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Greek in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Here on the Greek page the criterion for picking example words seems to be familiarity to English speakers. This means almost all the examples are Greek words that were borrowed into English. These words are often long, since they're usually composed of multiple roots. Shouldn't we use short words instead, as on other IPA pages, so that the ...
Ancient Greek phonology is the reconstructed phonology or pronunciation of Ancient Greek.This article mostly deals with the pronunciation of the standard Attic dialect of the fifth century BC, used by Plato and other Classical Greek writers, and touches on other dialects spoken at the same time or earlier.
In some word classes, stress position also preserves an older pattern inherited from Ancient Greek according to which a word could not be accented on the third-last syllable if the last syllable was long, e.g. άνθρωπος ('man', nominative singular, last syllable short), but ανθρώπων ('of men', genitive plural, last syllable long).
The most common form of hybrid word in English combines Latin and Greek parts. Since many prefixes and suffixes in English are of Latin or Greek etymology, it is straightforward to add a prefix or suffix from one language to an English word that comes from a different language, thus creating a hybrid word [citation needed].
Greek Note Cyrillic Example α а: Ελλάδα → Эллада: αι э (word-initially), е (all other cases) αιώνας → эонас, χαιρετάω → херетао αϊ ай: Ταϊβάν → Тайван αυ /af/ before a voiceless consonant; /av/ otherwise ав: αυτό → авто, σαύρα → савра β в: βήτα ...
In Greek mythology, Hippo (Ancient Greek: Ἱππώ or Ἵππωτος Hippô means 'horse' [1] or 'like a swift current' [2]) may refer to the following personages: Hippo, one of the 3,000 Oceanids , water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys .
DeepL Translator is a neural machine translation service that was launched in August 2017 and is owned by Cologne-based DeepL SE. The translating system was first developed within Linguee and launched as entity DeepL .