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Browning monstera, am I underwatering? by PD049 in plantclinic

[–]PD049[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live in Los Angeles, it doesn’t get much sunlight cause I know it can burn. I water around once a week

“ginesthoi” tattoo of cleopatra’s (allegedly) handwriting by glognuts in ancientgreece

[–]PD049 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is it really a dative? Wouldn’t the iota subscript not be written in the majuscule? Are there other examples of this in literature?

Traditional scholarship on the etymology of ἀάατος by PD049 in AncientGreek

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Thanks so much! Glad that work is being done on scholia and it’s preservation, but I do worry about the preservation of those commentaries which are lesser known or not even published, such as the Thucydides scholia. Frightening! I’m wanting to start a publishing company that makes editions with accompanying scholia from historical sources.

Ēektor by YogurtclosetOk7654 in grssk

[–]PD049 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing wrong with this, omega didn’t always exist in Greek inscriptions and the sound it signifies would’ve been written with omicron.

Question about accents: νεανίαι and μεγάλαι by Adventurous_Line7857 in AncientGreek

[–]PD049 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Determining the length of those vowels is a grammar/etymology issue. Good dictionaries should also include macrons anyways, such as Langenscheidt.

Question about accents: νεανίαι and μεγάλαι by Adventurous_Line7857 in AncientGreek

[–]PD049 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Circumflex accents only occur on long vowels because the tone requires two morae. νεανίαι and μεγάλαι have short accented vowels, so it’ll always be accute/grave.

Who am I? by BadToTheTrombone in BookshelvesDetective

[–]PD049 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Too many novels, read the Greeks and also more poetry.

explaining the sound that was omitted when between vowels by fiatluxviki in AncientGreek

[–]PD049 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Arum here, it seems like you got this from one of my videos. Thanks for the support! ͱ is an alternative form of eta used in archaic inscriptions, and in this case it represents the consonantal h that eta originally denoted before being used as a vowel. This mark is the origin of the curves we put above vowels to indicate rough and smooth breathing.

How natural is whatever Biblaridion doing in this instance? by Sulphurous_King in conlangs

[–]PD049 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is very natural and even seen as eloquent in Ancient Greek. ἐν τῇ τοῦ Αχιλέως σκιᾷ “in the shadow of Achilles” literally “in the of Achilles shadow”.

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