Re: [tied] The 1ps pronoun *ego:... or is it *eg?

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> For what it's worth: the libretto to Stravinski's "Oedipus Rex" (written in French, translated by a classical scholar) has a "Eg' Oedipus". I suppose the translator was using good models for his translation, if it's not just a case of "one of the vowels must go" in the context -V#V- (as still in "La Donna é mobile", -a é- -> - ´e-).

It's a case of crasis (a kind of Greek vowel sandhi), a frequent phenomenon in poetry and prose. <-o(:) oi-> was contracted to <-o:{i}-> ({i} = subscript iota), e.g. ego`: oîda --> egô:{i}da.

Piotr