Re: [tied] Prehellenic Tetrapolis

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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 3:53 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Prehellenic Tetrapolis

On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 00:13:01 , "Glen Gordon"
<glengordon01@...> wrote:

>The name is written in Greek letters in the book but the initial apostrophe
>is clearly glottal, not aspirate, before the upsilon. So no H- appears to be
>present, Miguel. Further, just for exactness' sake, the /e/ is long with
>accent on the /i/. Hence, Ytte:nia. Here's a site for ya, Miguel, concerning
>how to read Greek properly:
>
>  http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/alphabet.html
>

BTW, does that site happen to mention that there is not a single Greek
word (except u-psilon) that starts with spiritus lenis + upsilon?