Talk:28978 Ixion

6/8 of the dictionaries and mythological refs (Webster, Bollard, Brewer, Fagles, etc) I've found which list a pronunciation for Ixion have [ick-SIGH-un] as the only possibility. The other two (Columbia Encyclopedia and Zimmerman) had only [ICK-see-un]. This "feels" more Greek to an Anglophone. However, in Latin transliteration the first i vowel was short and the second long, supporting the majority opinion that the stress should be penultimate, since English generally follows the Latin for stress placement in Greek words. --kwami 06:22, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The Greek is Ιξίων, and from this you might expect ik'-see-un. However, the classical Greek script was defective in not distinguishing long from short [i]. The Latin borrowed the name as Ixīōn, giving us the penultimate stress, ik-sye'-un'. --kwami 04:26, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)