Wednesday, 12 January 2022

homonyms and homophones

Compared to English Classical Greek has far less homophones and homonyms. Moden Demotic Greek due to Iotacism is a whole other problem but Ancient Greek ... 
However there are a great many NEAR homonyms and homophones, words so similar the shift of an accent from one syllable to a following one can change the meaning.
The best known example is probably TI / tinos /tina 
meaning either any or some or an but also who or what .
There are others 
Words where aspirating an initial consonant is far more important than it is in English or a change of sound in a word shows it is  a different dialect or an older form.

Im compiling a list I will share on my Metousia Patreon soon 

Tuesday, 4 January 2022

can you guess where this was found ?

Can you guess where this was found ? 
Yes in Europe not Asia Minor or the Near East but somewhere where there were never Greek colonies and which was never part of the Byzantine Empire or one of the Diadochi realms?
Not in Italy or Greece and in a country where the majority language is NOT IndoEuropean !