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Does anyone have a solid reference on this? - I've googled to no avail!
   I'm looking for the pronunciation and intonation of the word
"zygiella" - perhaps someone has a good encyclopedia or something at
hand that would have this?

Thanks for any help!

That's a very good question.  

Whoever invented that word probably didn't even think about how to say it.

Latin always pronounces g 'hard' - as in English 'good' - but Latin has no
letter y so this is obviously a hybrid name.  (I've noticed that
'scientific Latin' does use y rather often).

Using English as a guide, the y should be a long vowel, such as the one in
'fly' (rhymes with eye).  The normal Latin spelling for that sound would
be ae.  

The g followed by the i could work together to make 'jee' (rhymes with
flee) in English, but Latin would go for 'gee' (sounds like ghee but
without the h); which would also 'not be wrong' in English.

The 'ell' part is going to rhyme with 'hell' in either language (with only
one l being pronounced).  Welsh or Spanish speakers may have other ideas
about that.

The final a would be like the a in car.  

So we have either "zae gee ella" or "zae jee ella" depending on how Latin
you want it to sound.  The stress would be on the ell in Latin, and
probably in English too.

"Eeeek!! SPIDER!!" might be what some people actually say.

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The word probably has Greek etymology. The 'zy' being the English version
of 'zeta-upsilon'. For some reason when this combination of Greek letters
is transliterated into English the 'upsilon' (which for all intents and
purposes is the equivalent of the letter 'u') becomes 'y' although the
letter becomes shortened when pronouncing it.

For this reason I suspect that this section of the word would more than
likely be pronounced 'zu' with the 'u' being very short almost to the
point of being a mute vowel.

Thus I would pronounce the word 'zi-j-yella'.

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From Mars"

Forgot to mention. When the Greek letter 'gamma' (g) is transliterated
into English, what was a hard letter (as in 'go) becomes a soft letter (as
in 'jam').

Think of other Greek-based words like 'genesis' (in Greek with the hard
'g') or 'syzygy' (in which the first two letters 'y' are pronounced like
the letter 'i' as in 'it'- 'sizijee').

This is why I made the assumption that the 'g' in zygiella is soft.    

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Just say...

    zee-gee-EL-la

because no one else knows either.

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http://dictionary.algebra.com/words/pronounce.mpl?phrase=Zygiella_indica

be quick to catch it tho.

<zygiella" - perhaps >

zig-ee-ella

Bart