Re: [tied] Re: Yers

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, fortuna11111 wrote:

> [...] The stress is written explicitly on the first syllable in the
> oldest Bulgarian Inscriptions in Greek, so obviously they
> reflected the orginal pronunciation of the word by Bulgarians
> themselves.

[...]

>
> How will you explain this?

How indeed? Is it really true that Greek *inscriptions* noted the accent
in this case? That is not customary of inscriptional Greek which simply
leaves the accents and the h'es unwritten.

Jens