How to pronounce "huic"?

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I’m trying to say in Church Latin Luke 10:5 “pax huic domui”. How do you pronounce the “huic”? Is it “who-EEK”? “who-EECH”? “oo-EEK”? or something else? Thanks!
 
Scottgun said:
I’m trying to say in Church Latin Luke 10:5 “pax huic domui”. How do you pronounce the “huic”? Is it “who-EEK”? “who-EECH”? “oo-EEK”? or something else? Thanks!
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If I remember my high school Latin correctly, it would be “WHO-eek”, Ecclesiastical Latin has slightly different pronunciations, so the H may be a hard K sound. The C at the end of a word is always pronounced as a hard K. It is only pronounced CH if it is before certain letters.
 
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I’m trying to say in Church Latin Luke 10:5 “pax huic domui”. How do you pronounce the “huic”? Is it “who-EEK”? “who-EECH”? “oo-EEK”? or something else? Thanks!
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I vote for “oo-eek”.
 
H is pronounced K in the two words nihil (nee-keel) and mihi (mee-kee)
and their compounds. In ancient books these words are often written
nichil and michi. In all other cases H is mute.

This is the relevant potion of the link someone else posted. “oo-eek” it is.
 
There were regional dialects where the H was hard, but as a rule you do not pronounce the H in Ecclesiastical Latin unless in mihil and nihil as listed above.

OO-eek

P.S. I’ve sung in a schola for 10 years. Sometimes we slip into the hard H just to get enough volume into the note. I doubt there are Latinists in the congregation shaking their fists at us. 😃
 
Windmill said:
P.S. I’ve sung in a schola for 10 years. Sometimes we slip into the hard H just to get enough volume into the note. I doubt there are Latinists in the congregation shaking their fists at us. 😃
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This works well if the word is the first word in a phrase.
 
I am a Latin expert in both classic and Ecclesiastical Latin and it is pronounced who-EEK this is the same in both types of Latin.
 
landon13 said:
I am a Latin expert in both classic and Ecclesiastical Latin and it is pronounced who-EEK this is the same in both types of Latin.
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I concur in part. I think it is more HOO-eek, though, as the first syllable in two-syllable words in Latin is stressed. (I think)

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I am confused. When did Latin accent suddenly shift to the ultimate syllable and the i in huic become long?
 
landon13 said:
I am a Latin expert in both classic and Ecclesiastical Latin and it is pronounced who-EEK this is the same in both types of Latin.
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I agree. (I have a background in Latin myself, though I am not teaching it). The above is how I learned the word, although we gave short shrift to the “oo” sound, and it came out more like the poster quies spelled it, hweek. The “oo” was said very quickly.
🙂

Cross-posted with post #16. 😉 (Yes, I agree with you.)
 
The -ui- is a diphthong; the vowels are pronounced together rather than as separate syllables. The -u is not quite equivalent to the Latin v here. This diphthong does not produce a separate vowel sound but rather comprises both vowel sounds spoken in quick succession. The -i- to my knowledge is not long, so something between “ick” and “eek.”

Emphasis is obviously not on the second syllable (even if there were one); Latin accent falls on long penults or the antepenult when the penult is short.

“Hooick”
 
Based on the Italian pronunciation it would be oo-eek. In Italian all H’s are silent; U is oo; I is ee; C has a bunch of different sounds, it’s typically K unless followed by E, I, or H. Just like hora is prounced the same as ora AFAIK.
 
GangGreen said:
Based on the Italian pronunciation it would be oo-eek. In Italian all H’s are silent; U is oo; I is ee; C has a bunch of different sounds, it’s typically K unless followed by E, I, or H. Just like hora is prounced the same as ora AFAIK.
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Apparently in many areas ecclesiastical Latin has silent h, but Classical Latin did have vocalized h’s.

The i is what I am most curious about – in Classical Latin, short i is not “ee,” but like the i in “pin.”
 
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