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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/21 Maurice Batey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maurice@bcs.org.uk">maurice@bcs.org.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:30:57 +0100, I wrote:<br>
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> I must have missed some posting that explains "mageia"!<br>
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OK - I now see it all described on Wikipedia, but the<br>
notes on *pronunciation* there do not agree with that given by:<br>
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<a href="http://www.searchgodsword.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=3095" target="_blank">http://www.searchgodsword.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=3095</a><br>
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(which gives "mah-GAY-ah")<br>
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Perhaps there should be an agreed pronunciation (to avoid the problem<br>
some people have with "Linux"!)<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>The right in greek is this <br></div><div><a href="http://www.forvo.com/word/%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1/">http://www.forvo.com/word/μαγεία/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The greek pronouncation of the word Mageia (Μαγεία) is Ma-yeé-a . The yeé is the same when you say in english 'young' the first syllabe.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You cannot say ma - geï (gay)-a because in greek the ei=i (like ει-ρή-νη=I-re-ne <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Irene">http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Irene</a> )</div><div>Only when it has the two points over the i (εϊ) is ay (like fame)</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>With the latin leters, i am not sure but i think [mah-JEE-ah] is the right</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Dimitrios Glentadakis</div><br>
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