Re: [tied] Re: nu:któs

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:22:05 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>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").

Usually. However, I see in Allen that at least one
grammarian did provide information about "hidden lengths"
(or lack thereof), Herodian (Vox Graeca, p. 93). Nothing
about <nux>, though.

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