On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 10:05:15AM +0200, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
πρᾶ-γμα πρά-γμα-τος
As far as I know, two consonants in ancient Greek aren’t hyphenated, when they may begin a word.
Γν may be the beginning of word in Greek (such as γνῶσις), but even LSJ has no word that begins with γμ.
Am I missing something or should this be improved in the hyphenation patterns?
Since we’ve continued that discussion off list, I’d like to mention our conclusion, which is that the patterns shouldn’t be changed, since they follow a somewhat different rule, where a few additional consonant clusters receive the same treatment as γν. That rule is documented in William Goodwin’s Greek grammar, §97: https://archive.org/details/greekgrammar00gooduoft/page/24 Thomas pointed out that Goodwin’s statement that his rule was “based on ancient tradition” is not very convincing, and that different behaviours are possible, but the one reported by Pablo above is documented and intentional. Best, Arthur