Re: Elektron

"ivanovas/milatos" <ivanova-@...> wrote:
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/cybalist/?start=1770

> Dear Pjotr and others,
>
> sorry for the cryptic Greek letters, I'll stick to Greeklish from now

on. Pjotr was right about what I wanted to ask.

> In your answer you mentioned:
> >cf. also Cretan a:velios, spelt abelios<
> That's interesting, I've never heard that before. What kind of Cretan

is that supposed to be? Could you give me any sources?

>
> Best wishes from Crete
>
> Sabine

Not modern Cretan, of course, but the Ancient Cretan dialect in which
the intervocalic digamma was preserved and spelt as beta. I took this
form from a historical grammer of Greek, but if you want a web
reference, it is quoted (together with other dialectal variants in the
Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon under HE^LIOS:

http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/lexindex?lookup=h(/lios&lang
=Greek&author=*2.0&corpus=2.0

Piotr