- greek - Was η called eta or heta? - Latin Language Stack Exchange
Background: historically, Η came from the Phoenician letter het (or heth), which represented a ħ sound Some Greek dialects used it as a consonant, which is how we get the English letter "H", while others used it as a vowel, which is how we get the Greek letter "Η"
- ancient greek - The pronunciation of Eta (η) - Latin Language Stack . . .
There is no evidence that I know of for η ever being pronounced as a diphthong by Greek speakers English speakers often diphthongize vowels In some accents of English spoken in southern Britain, hair is pronounced with a long monophthong [ɛː] (the symbol "eə" is a non-phonetic conservatism in transcriptions of these accents)
- How are the sounds of E (ε) and H (η) different in classical Greek . . .
In Athenaze, the pronunciations of E (ε) and H (η) are given as comparable to the English words get and bed, respectively Other than H (η) being held longer, in my American English pronunciation there is no real difference between the sound of e in get and bed However, Wikipedia lists two different IPA pronunciations: [e] for E (ε) and
- functions - Understanding η-conversion (Lambda Calculus) - Mathematics . . .
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- Whats the point of eta-conversion in lambda calculus?
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- (Ancient and Modern Greek) Pronunciations of ‘epsilon’ and ‘eta’
At some prehistoric point, lengthening an ε gave η, and combining an ε with a j gave ει ε was quantitatively shorter, and η and ει quantitatively longer, in terms of how much time they took to pronounce In historic times, the quality of ε was the same as the quality of ει, not the quality of η If you put two εs together in
- Characteristic coordinates $ξ(x, y)$ and $η(x, y)$ for $xu_{xx} + u_{yy . . .
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- greek - Whats the difference in sound between the letter η and the . . .
η stood for a long open-mid front unrounded vowel, IPA [ɛ:] English has the short version of this vowel, [ɛ], in words like bed or pet It is specifically "open-mid" rather than just "mid" because it is pronounced with a more open mouth than, for example, the e sound of a language like Spanish
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