PRONUNCIATION OF FOREIGN NAMES 4842 



PROPHET 



of y in yellow; in French and Portuguese the 

 sound of 8 in pleasure, and in Spanish the sound 

 of h, very distinctly pronounced. 



K is in most languages pronounced as in Eng- 

 lish ; in Swedish, however, before e, i, y, a or 6 

 it closely resembles ch in chair. 



LL in Spanish is like the sound of III in million, 

 though in names of places in the colonies, or in 

 North America, the I sound is usually not heard. 

 Thus La JoUa is La Hoya, as noted above, and not 

 La Holy a. 



M and N are like the English m and n except 

 where they serve merely to give a nasalized char- 

 to vowels (see AM, EN. IN, UM). 



X in Spanish and NH in Portuguese are like ni 

 in tninion. 



NG in German is always like ng in wringer. 



O is most frequently like o in no, obey, core, 

 though sometimes like o in rot. In Swedish a 

 final o or one which constitutes a syllable is like 

 oo in school or like u in pull. 



O has no exact English equivalent, but is most 

 nearly like e in fern. 



6 in French is like o in note. 



in Portuguese is like o in note, pronounced 

 through the nose. 



OE is sometimes a substitute for o; in Dutch, 

 however, it is pronounced like u in rule or putt; 

 in Welsh like oi in toil. 



OE in Portuguese is like oi in toil, spoken 

 through the nose. 



OEU in French is like eu (see above). 



01 is in general much like oi in oil; in French, 

 however, it is like wa in wasp. 



OIN in French is like in (see above) preceded 

 by the sound of w. 



OO is like o in note. 



OU in French is like u in rule, pull; in Por- 

 tuguese like o in note; in Dutch and Norwegian 

 like ou in house. 



QU in French and before e or i in Spanish and 

 Portuguese is like k; in German like kv, and else- 

 where like the English k in quick. 



R has in most European languages more of a 

 trilled sound than in English. Certain French 

 and German words require a guttural sound of 

 r which cannot be indicated in English. 



R in Bohemian is like r followed by the sound 

 of s in pleasure. 



S, in German, if before a vowel and not follow- 

 ing a liquid or a surd (p, f, s, t or k), and in 

 French between two vowels, is pronounced like z 

 in zither. In Hungarian, and in German where 

 it precedes t or p, it has the sound of sh in shall, 

 and in Portuguese it resembles sh if final or pre- 

 ceding p, f, t or k and zh (s in pleasure) before 

 d, b, v or g. In Spanish, Dutch and Swedish s 

 is always pronounced as in sun, while in Italian 

 it has sometimes this sound, sometimes that of z. 



S in Bohemian, Bulgarian and Servian is like 

 sh in shall. 



SC in Italian before e or i is like sh in shall. 



SCH in German is like sh in shall; in Italian 

 and Rumanian, it is like sk before e or i; in 

 Dutch like sg (see below) before vowels, like s 

 before consonants. 



SG in Dutch most nearly resembles English sk, 

 though the g has a distinctly guttural sound. 



SJ in Danish, Swedish and Dutch is like sh in 

 shall. 



SK in Swedish and Norwegian is like sh in 

 shall before e, i and y. SKJ has the sh sound 

 always in these two languages. ' 



SS usually like s in sun, but in Hungarian like 

 sh in shall. 



STJ in Swedish closely resembles sh in shall 



SZ in Hungarian is like * in sun; in Polish like 

 sh in shall. 



TH is generally like English t, but in Welsh 

 and modern Greek is like th in thought. 



TSCH in German is like ch in chair. 



TY in Hungarian is like f followed by a y 

 sound, closely resembling the tu sound in future. 



U has generally the oo sound, as in rude, or the 

 sound of u, as in pull. The French u differs 

 from any sound heard in English, but is like the 

 German u. If the lips are put in position for pro- 

 nouncing oo, and e as in be is sounded instead, 

 the result will be much like the French u. U in 

 Welsh is like i in pique. 



U, see u above. 



UI in French is much like English we, except 

 when preceded by g or q; in Dutch it resembles 

 oi in oil. 



UM, UN in French have much the sound of e 

 in fern, pronounced through the nose. 



UU in Dutch has a prolonged sound of u. 



UY in French is like ui, except when a fol- 

 lowing vowel gives it an additional y sound. 



V in Dutch, Polish and Russian is like / when 

 it occurs at the end of a word or of one member 

 of a compound word ; otherwise it is li-ke Eng- 

 lish v. 



W in German, Polish, Swedish and Norwegian 

 is like English v; in Dutch it more closely resem- 

 bles the English w, though the lips are not 

 rounded in pronouncing it. In Welsh it is a 

 vowel and has the sound of oo in boot. 



X in Spanish is sometimes pronounced like j, 

 g or s; in Portuguese it is like sh in shall. 



Y is generally like i in pique. In Danish, Nor- 

 wegian and Swedish it is like the French u. 



Z in German and Italian is like ts in cats; in 

 Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, like s in sin; in 

 Spanish like th in thought, though the colonies 

 and some localities in Spain sound it as s in sun. 

 In Portuguese it is like sh when final, and in 

 other languages like z in zither. 



Z in Bohemian, Bulgarian and Servian is like z 

 in azure, and zs in Hungarian has the same 

 sound. A.MC c. 



PROPHET, prof'et, one who represents God 

 before men. The true prophet, as pictured in 

 the Old Testament, was a man of vision, who 

 received a message from God; and a man of 

 speech, who delivered that message to the 

 people. There are two distinct periods of Old 

 Testament prophecy. In the first, extending 

 from Samuel to Elisha, the prophet was known 

 as. a seer and was commonly consulted as to 

 the course of future events (7 Samuel IX, 6). 

 At first the prophets were the friends and ad- 

 visers of the kings, but as idolatry began to be 

 introduced by the later kings, they became 

 their active opponents, as shown by Elijah's 

 opposition to Ahab (/ Kings XVIII). 



