8 окт. 2015 г. · Another rule in Greek is that compounds like PT when they occur within a word and not as a double compound at the beginning (as in chthon ...

10 июн. 2023 г. · In Greek, many words traditionally reconstructed with *p- optionally show pt- (ptólis \ pólis 'city'; ptólemos \ pólemos 'war').

21 июл. 2013 г. · They weren't silent in Greek, but when we borrowed those words into English, we modified them to fit our rules of which sounds can go together.

10 окт. 2024 г. · I know the "pter" comes from Greek meaning wings, and you pronounce the p sound in Greek, and "Helicopter" also has the "pter" root and the P ...

25 сент. 2017 г. · These are (often artificial) permutations of the Greek word psykhê, "spirit", which would have been pronounced p-su-kè.

18 сент. 2020 г. · How were the clusters /pʰtʰ/ and /kʰtʰ/ likely realized phonetically in ancient greek? I know we unfortunatly don't have recordings of them ...

4 окт. 2021 г. · The word/term "biꜣ-n-pt" is the word for Iron or phrase about iron as somewhere it is translated as a 'metal of heaven' and sometimes 'Iron from/of heaven'.

29 нояб. 2013 г. · TIL that the -pter in "helicopter" and "pterodactyl" are from the same Greek word "pteron" meaning 'wing'. wordsnooper ...

26 июн. 2022 г. · "Ptolemy" is an angliciation of "Ptolemaeos", which comes from the Macedonian Doric Greek "Ptolemos", which was basically an alternate ...

2 окт. 2020 г. · The Greek letters Psi (Ψ) and Xi (Ξ) represent the clusters /ps/ and /ks/ respectively, with Chi (Χ) representing /ks/ in the Greek dialect that Latin adopted.