Talk:Vates/Archives/2013

Misinterpretation of the Greek spelling

I would like to point out that the reconstucted Ancient Greek (classical and postclassical) pronunciation accepted by most scholars of οὐάτεις (like all cases with ου + vowel) is [oː-]/[oːw-] or [uː-]/[uːw-] and not the simple glide [w] without the full vowel [oː] or [uː] before. You can check Vox Graeca by W. Sidney Allen or The pronunciation of Greek and Latin, the sounds and accents by Edgard H. Sturtevant.--Carnby (talk) 09:03, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

RFC comment: cool! What am I supposed to comment about? — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 02:18, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Removed RFC tag: There's no question, dispute or proposal in the RFC summary... if this was about a simple edit, you can make it your self or use {{edit request}} if you don't want to make the change your self for some reason. If you intended to ask or propose something, re-add the RFC tag with that included in the summary. --lTopGunl (talk) 10:22, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

It isn't a Greek word, though, it's a Gaulish word written in the Greek alphabet and was certainly pronounced with /w/, probably /wa:tis/. Angr (talk) 12:38, 27 April 2013 (UTC)