Syllable weight

The Latin and ancient Greek metric syllables divided by the length in nature and long position long. Syllables are called natural long when the syllable nucleus is either a diphthong or a long vowel. Natural Long syllables treated as the prosody zweimorig.

Position length of a syllable is when a short vowel is the syllable nucleus and follow this at least two consonants. These are also prosodically considered zweimorig, while a plosive ( Muta ) no flow volume ( liquids) as follows.

Example

As an example, a brief explanation of the root vowels of the following two Latin words:

• Contentum "satisfied" ( "ten " is long because followed by the vowel two consonants, the mutation plus liquids are not, but nasal "n " plus Muta "t" ); the root syllable is long position;
• émigro " I wander off" ( " mig " is short because a mutation, namely "g", and a liquidation, "r", followed by the vowel. ); the root syllable is not long position.

Translations

• Natural Long syllable Greek: συλλαβή φύσει μακρά ( syllabe physei makra )
• Latin: Syllaba natura longa

• Position long syllable Greek: συλλαβή θέσει μακρά ( syllabe thesei makra )
• Latin: Syllaba positione longa

The German term " position length" is derived from Latin and refers to a syllable that is not " naturally", but by " setting " (that is, by convention, Latin for " positione " Greek " θέσει " ) as a long- considered will. "Position" thus refers, etymologically, not the position of the vowel before two consonants.

Swell

• Helmut Glück ( ed.), in collaboration with Friederike Schmöe: Metzler Lexikon Sprache. Third, revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005. ISBN 978-3-476-02056-7. Tags: natural long position long.
• Gero von Wilpert: Subject dictionary of the literature. 8, improved and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2001. ISBN 3-520-23108-5. Keywords: natural length, position, length, quantity.