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minus-square𝔽𝕩𝕠𝕞𝕥@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 months 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-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoI know, but the letter is actually just ρ. We don’t have a different sounding r in Greek
minus-square𝔽𝕩𝕠𝕞𝕥@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 months 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-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 months agoDaym, corrected by a Non-Greek >_<
minus-squareitslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months 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)