-
basileusi (dative plural)
Attic deletes one of two
vowels in a row,
called hyphaeresis (ὑφαίρεσις).
Homeric boē-tho-os →
Attic boēthos "running to a cry", "helper...
- a
process called "contraction", if a
third phoneme is created, and "
hyphaeresis" ("taking away") if one
phoneme is
dropped and the
other kept. Sometimes...
- "macédoine", "basenji", "numnah", "chorion", "nacarat", "sinicize", "
hyphaeresis", "taleggio" and "esclandre" correctly, in that order. In
second place...
