White spirits more asper
each word in the oldGreek, vokalisch anlautende in the writing , possess so-called white spirits. Differences becomes here between white spirits more asper and white spirits lenis.
The white spirits more asper (Latin for rauer breath sound; on Greek δασεία, Dasía) is in the old-GreekWriting used diacritical indication, which indicates that a vowel aspiriert, thus” with breath “(for Germans: with preceding “h”) one expresses.
Typographic indication ῾ with letters:
- ἁ ἑ ἡ ἱ ὁ ὑ ὡ ῥ -;
- Ἁ Ἑ Ἡ Ἱ Ὁ Ὑ Ὡ Ῥ -.
ThatWhite spirits look more asper like a very small „C “and stand over the anlautenden vowel - or over the second vowel of a anlautenden Diphthongs - with one in the discussion with H anlautenden word. With largely written vowels it stands like all Greek diacritical indicationsleft before it instead of over it. Each old-Greek word beginning in the writing with a vowel letter keeps none either the white spirits more asper or the white spirits lenis - never, never both. With Ypsilon words beginning carry fewer sound painting with exception ever the white spirits more asper, with all other vowelsboth occurs.
In the German Transkription of the word then „an h appears “at the word beginning. Homer, hygiene, hysteria begin in the Greek writing all with the vowel letter, in the oldGreek white spirits more asper carry in each case (Ὅμηρος, ὑγιείνη, ὑστερία).
If the white spirits more asper with an accenttogether on the same vowel stands, then it stands like the white spirits lenis to the left of a Akutus or a grave, but under a circumflex.
As only Greek consonant carries the Rho, the Greek „r “, at the word beginning the white spirits more asper. In the Transkription appears thisthen as „RH “. (Rhodos Ῥόδος). Over a Greek double Rho in the midst of a word double white spirits can stand, i.e. over the first Rho white spirits lenis, over second white spirits more asper; in the Transkription writes one then „rrh “(Pyrrhos Πύῤῥος or Πύρρος).However this is essentially a western academic tradition, which loses also in the today's old philology at meaning; with old-Greek texts printed in Greece are usually no white spirits over a Rho.
The mirror-image guessing USA by character can never appear differently than the white spirit Lenis indication over vowels in the word inside.
In the newGreek, which both the crack sound and „the h “- sound at the word beginning lost, the become useless were officially abolished and pupils only unnecessary learning expenditure causing white spirit characters 1982 both, however they become from some conservative newspapers and publishing houses, the church and above all thatPart the population, who before 1982 , learned to write moreover uses.
