Onegin again (metamorphosed into: Greek)

[E Wayles Browne]

Are you sure of your Greek there? My Greek dictionary has pages of words
beginning with hom- (omicron = short vowel), meaning 'same', and no words
at all beginning hwm- (omega = long vowel).
-- 
Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu


>
>> In English, forms derived from Latin homo should be pronounced with a
>> short vowel in the initial syllable, and  those from Greek homo-
>> with a long one. (This distinction has been lost in most Slavic
>> languages, even those which preserve any sort of length).
>

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