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minus-squarefxomtlinkfedilink1•edit-21 month agoI’m not Greek and know nothing about the diacritics, but from wikipedia seems to just be ρ with rough breathing. Should be “rhe”? I may be saying the complete obvious, that’s just what I got from the wiki :p It indeed is “rhythmos”.
minus-squaredb0OPMlinkfedilink4•1 month agoI know, but the letter is actually just ρ. We don’t have a different sounding r in Greek
minus-squarefxomtlinkfedilink7•1 month ago We don’t have a different sounding r in Greek Modern greek. The word’s from ancient greek; https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ῥυθμός https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ρυθμός Notice how the modern word dropped that diacritic
minus-square@itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilink1•1 month agoWhat studying natural sciences does to a mf (I am intimately familiar with the Greek alphabet, despite not speaking a word of Greek)
I’m not Greek and know nothing about the diacritics, but from wikipedia seems to just be ρ with rough breathing. Should be “rhe”? I may be saying the complete obvious, that’s just what I got from the wiki :p
It indeed is “rhythmos”.
I know, but the letter is actually just
ρ. We don’t have a different sounding r in GreekModern greek. The word’s from ancient greek;
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ῥυθμός
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ρυθμός
Notice how the modern word dropped that diacritic
Daym, corrected by a Non-Greek >_<
What studying natural sciences does to a mf (I am intimately familiar with the Greek alphabet, despite not speaking a word of Greek)