- by
iotacism, so were the
respective diphthongs. In
Modern Gr****, the
letters and
digraphs ι, η, υ, ει, οι, υι (rare) are all
pronounced [i].
Iotacism caused...
- [ɛː],
which was
raised to [i] in ****enistic Gr****, a
process known as
iotacism or itacism. In the
ancient Attic number system (Herodianic or acrophonic...
- Chreistos, Christus, Chrestus, and Chreistus,
pronounced identically (cf.
iotacism).
Nicknames include Chris, Chrissie, Chrissy, Chreissie, Chreissy, Chreis...
-
vowels and
diphthongs once
pronounced distinctly are
pronounced as /i/ (
iotacism). Some of the
stops and
glides in
diphthongs have
become fricatives, and...
- This came
about through a
series of mergers,
especially towards /i/ (
iotacism).
Modern Gr****
consonants are
plain (voiceless unaspirated) stops, voiced...
-
underwent a
vowel shift near the
beginning of the
Common Era,
which included iotacism.
Among the
Semitic languages, the
Canaanite languages underwent a shift...
-
types Apophony Affrication Gemination Clipping Fronting Raising Betacism Iotacism Fusion Merger Compensatory lengthening Monophthongization Rhotacism Rhinoglottophilia...
- and does not
distinguish many
letters and
digraphs that have
merged by
iotacism. The
accents (Ancient Gr****: τόνοι, romanized: tónoi, singular: τόνος,...
- most
diphthongs and
several steps in a
chain shift of
vowels towards /i/ (
iotacism).
development of the
voiceless aspirated plosives /pʰ/ and /tʰ/ to the...
-
orthographic realizations: /i/ can be
spelled η, ι, υ, ει, οι, or υι (see
Iotacism); /e/ can be
spelled either ε or αι; /o/ can be
spelled either ο or ω....
