Sasha22 May 2004

Sasha 69.138.236.6322-May-04/11:05 AM
Oh, one other thing.

If the word had been borrowed from Greek via Latin, then it could have a mute consonant ending (Like the borrowed "Iliad") but the romans took the greek upsilon ("u" sound) and always transcribed it with a "Y".

So the Romans never had it, the Greeks never had it.

I guess you must know more about Greek mythology than the Greeks themselves did.