Talk:Ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσα


 * this should be moved at . --Barytonesis (talk) 14:32, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks for notifying me of my mistake. Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 14:39, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
 * you're welcome. I appreciate the fact that you're adding quotations, as I generally can't be arsed to do it myself. We could nominate a shitload of words at FWOTD! --Barytonesis (talk) 00:17, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I guess the spelling with final eta should be kept as an alternative form; this is the form that appears in Herodotus:
 * Herodotus, Histories, 1.180.1, ed. by A. D. Godley, 1920.
 * "grc"

- ἐτετείχιστο μέν νυν ἡ Βαβυλὼν τρόπῳ τοιῷδε, ἔστι δὲ δύο φάρσεα τῆς πόλιος. τὸ γὰρ μέσον αὐτῆς ποταμὸς διέργει, τῷ οὔνομα ἐστὶ Εὐφρήτης: ῥέει δὲ ἐξ Ἀρμενίων, ἐὼν μέγας καὶ βαθὺς καὶ ταχύς: ἐξιεῖ δὲ οὗτος ἐς τὴν Ἐρυθρὴν θάλασσαν.


 * There is also another form with final alpha and Attic thalatta. Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 13:13, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * yes, I should have mentioned that possibility. So Ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσα would be Koine, Ἐρυθρὴ θάλασσα Ionian, Ἐρυθρὰ θάλαττα Attic. --Barytonesis (talk) 13:18, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Are there any rules regulating at what form the main entry should be? Is Attic or Koine preferred or is it whatever form has the most independent attestations? Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 13:24, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't think we've reached a definitive answer to that question yet, but prefers to make the Koine form the lemma, if memory serves right. --Barytonesis (talk) 13:29, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I do, simply because that seems to be the standard practice in other Ancient Greek dictionaries. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 13:32, 6 November 2017 (UTC)