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... True, Greeks generally omit he, but, as I wrote to Peter, thatNot only in such words. Remember King Jehu, who in Greek becomes EIOU,
happens in the words that have other consonants. ...
IHOU or IOU.
But he is not omitted at all in these examples. It became iota or epsilon
that is sometimes assimilated into o, making Iou.
Iao, on the contrary, has nothing for the first he if alpha is for schwa. IfGreeks would hear he as a consonant, not a vowel, because it is a consonant. But they had no way of representing it in their script, so they omitted it. Or perhaps they simply heard nothing. But they didn't hear it as a vowel, and never transcribed it as a vowel.
alpha is for he, as I suggest, then the word is not the verb. In the verb
ihie, Greeks would not hear he as alpha, but as epsilon if light or perhaps
as chi if heavily guttural.
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