Talk:Nausicaa

message: Was the ancient Nausicaa known for caring after animals and such, or is this story an invention of Hayao Miyazaki? - idiotoff 06:40, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for the excellent answer. While I was reading it I remembered that I read it already long ago but couldn't remember the details or the source of Myazaki's quote (it's a pity you didn't include it either). Thanks. idiotoff 21:05, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I think it would be a good idea to mention how the classical character's name is pronouced.  The Miyazaki character's name is generally pronounced "Naw-sic-a", but I've heard "Now-shka" for the classical character.  This article would be the ideal place to put in a definitive reference. Tevildo 09:29, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The classical character is most likely never pronounced as "Now-shka" as that is just a byproduct of the way it is pronounced in Japanese and is thus probably exclusive to Miyazaki's version (or Japanese people talking about the classical character I suppose).165.106.223.130 16:01, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The pronounciation is either [nau̯sik'a] (ancient) or [nafsik'a] (modern), for those unfamiliar with the I.P.A. that is now-see-kAh or nuff-see-kAh, in both cases stressed on the final syllable. Unless you want to do a risng and falling tone on the last syllable :). Causantin (talk) 08:25, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  That would be the pronunciation in Greek; however, names from Ancient Greek literature when used in English are typically revised according to English pronunciation conventions. I guess Nausicaä would be pronounced "naw-si (or zi-) KAY-a", since the diaeresis generally indicates that two adjacent vowels are given separate syllables, but I don't know for certain. 213.249.135.36 (talk) 17:11, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

text: I agree, this sounds wrong. The original pronunciation in Homeric Greek, as far as I can tell, would be (roughly) [nau̯siˈka(ʔ)aː] (i. e., approximately now-see-KAH-ah), in Classical Ancient Greek [nau̯siˈkaː] (i. e., now-see-KAH) and in Modern Greek [nafsiˈka] (i. e., nuff-see-KAH) – the accent is a bit tricky, but in Homeric Greek the (penultimate) ka syllable would have a higher pitch and the final syllable probably a falling tone, in Classical Ancient Greek there would be a rising-falling intonation on the final syllable, and Modern Greek (where the length distinction has long disappeared) has only a stress on the final syllable. The Classical Latin spelling is NAVSICAA (or Nausicäa in updated, New Latin spelling), and the ancient pronunciation would be [nau̯siˈkaʔa] or so. According to Traditional English pronunciation of Latin, this should give . --Florian Blaschke (talk) 15:18, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The correct English pronunciation is  (see ). It follows the normal stress pattern for the pronunciation of classical words in English. The ending in  is a case of dissimilation because * is not pronounceable. If there is an alternative pronunciation such as , please provide a source. --mach 🙈🙉🙊 14:19, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronounciation? 

message: I'm no expert in classical Greek, but it seems unlikely that the Greek spelling is Ναυσικά if the standard English spelling is Nausicaa. The German and French Wikipedia articles use the Ναυσικάα spelling (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausikaa_%28Mythologie%29 and http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausicaa). Can someone check this?  Omc (talk) 14:59, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's a dialectal difference: Ναυσικάα is Homeric Greek, Ναυσικᾶ is classical Greek and Ναυσικά seems to be Modern Greek. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 14:52, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of Greek - Ναυσικά or Ναυσικάα ? 

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thread_title:  "Nausicaae" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: It doesn't make much sense that the name Nausícaa means "She who burns ships", I don't think it's a girl's name. Looking in various dictionaries of and classical Greek it seems that "Nao" means Temple and "sic" "sica" means hiss or whisper. They would give "whisper in the temple" or something similar. What do you think about this? Ebanobre (talk) 19:44, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology of Nausicaa