Цитат(Ruoste`` @ Dec 18 2007, 02:49 AM)
Доколкото знам, правилото е преди гласна да се чете като "к" ;] .. иначе си е нещо като ..."ш"
According to the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, the prefix arch- (meaning "beginning", "chief", or "primary") is pronounced with a "ch" (as in "chin") sound, with the sole exception of archangel, which is pronounced with a "k" sound. However, this entry can be at best only partially correct, as the word archenteron is also pronounced with a "k" sound and yet has the arch- prefix. Based on the examples I have been able to find, I conclude that the "k" sound is used when arch- is prefixed to a word beginning with a vowel, and the "ch" sound is used when arch- is prefixed to a word beginning with a consonant.
Since "archmage" is a neologism, there presumably is no generally accepted standard pronunciation for it; however, in light of the above considerations, I think the "ch" pronunciation is more defensible, despite being farther away from the etymology (the "ch" derives from a chi in Greek).
И въпреки това в речниците навсякъде се пише/казва ARCH-ENEMY [,a:tʃ'enimi]
beyondtheblack, докато ровя за граматическо правило, което да потвърди или отхвърли дадено произношение, ти защо не ни кажеш защо "разбира се" е с "К"?
Цитат
Arch-, archi-, and arche- are variants of the same prefix, which came to Old English via Old French, from Latin, and ultimately from Greek. They mean “chief, first, main, most important, most primitive”; arch- has two pronunciations, AHRCH- and AHRK-, but archi- and arche- have only one, AHRK-i. We can therefore have trouble with words beginning with arch- that we rarely have to say, such as archangel (AHRK-AIN-jel), archduke (AHRCH-dook or AHRCH-dyook), archbishop (AHRCH-bish-uhp), archpriest (AHRCH-PREEST), and archenemy (AHRCH-EN-uh-mee). When a vowel follows arch- the ch is usually pronounced as a k, as in archipelago (AHRK-i-PEL-uh-go), archetype (AHRK-uh-TEIP), and archiepiscopal (AHRK-i-ee-PIS-kuh-puhl). Archenemy is the exception; its first syllable rhymes with march.
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