Re: nu:któs

On 2008-04-03 22:09, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

> The only possibility I can think of is that the vowel was
> given as long in this word in the writings of some Ancient
> Greek grammarian.

But the Greek grammarians did not distinguish long nuclei from heavy
rhymes (according to them, a short vowel in a closed syllable was "long
by position").

Piotr