Classical Studies 2800A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Odometer, Gyne, Classical Compound

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2800A/B
• Professor: David Lamari

Document Summary

Taking a word from another language and choose the equivalent in our language. Greek introduced into english letter by a matched english letter. Transliteration from one script to another not always consistent: muhammad mohammed mohamet. But transliteration from greek to english is. For the final exam, i just want you to transliterate letter by letter from greek to english: "a= hah, a= ah, the " accent is aspiration some greek stem have two versions, one with h, one without h. L. -us, -a, -um: cosmos, acme, neuron. Greek words can have lots of stems, so combining vowels are frequently used (almost always -o-). fibr-o-my-alg-ia: ge-o-logy, hydr-, ge- are the stems, not hydro- and geo- techn-i-color. The o is a separator of parts. The te(cid:454)t(cid:271)ook gi(cid:448)es (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:271)i(cid:374)i(cid:374)g for(cid:373)s(cid:863); these are ste(cid:373)s plus suffi(cid:454)es that (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:374)eed to (cid:271)reak down (unless you want to: pho(cid:271)ia = pho(cid:271) + ia (cid:862)fear(cid:863)