Ygrasia

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Ygrasia grece humor humiditas.


Translation:

Ygrasia is Greek for Latin humor, humiditas {"moisture"}.


Commentary:

Cf. Greek ὕγρασία /hygrasía/ "moisture"; its medieval pronunciation is /igrasía/ showing loss of /h/. Simon's use of the letter 'y', which is etymologically correct, is merely a graphic variant by that time and is pronounced as /i/ {like English 'ee'}, resulting in /igrasía/.

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