pronunciation for mythical greek loan-word "Gigas?"

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@Chronos

The “g” would certainly be pronounced hard, as in “gram”. Or, for that matter, as in “gamma”, that being the Greek letter corresponding to our “g”.

For the vowels, I’m not as certain, but I’m pretty sure that “i” would be pronounced like our long “e”, like in “meet”. The “a” would be more or less how you would expect.

And “giga” might or might not be the full word: It might just be a root, with the grammatical suffix removed. In any event, the plural would not be formed just by adding an “s”, but by some other change of the ending.

Ah, thanks.

I’ve only seen gigas used as the singular form (one gigas, two ?). I don’t think I’ve ever seen a pluralized form come up (which may be because, as stated before, most of my experience with the word comes from Japanese products, where it should be noted that Japanese doesn’t have plural forms, IIRC). On wikipedia’s article about the word’s greek origin, gigas seems to be the singular form, gigantes the plural.

But yeah, “giga” + s is a good way of describing how I always thought of pronouncing it. Wish I had thought of that in the OP, instead of my poor-man’s phonetics.