Re: perfect passives

Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Sun, 22 Sep 1996 09:35:14 -0500

At 10:43 PM -0500 9/22/96, John Oaklands wrote:
>Does anyone know the third person plural perfect indicative passives of
>GRAFW, ERCOMAI and GINWSKW please?

GRAFW: Koine: EGRAMME'NOI (-AI,-A) EISI(N); Homeric and early: GEGRAFATAI
(-NTAI --> ATAI after a consonant stem).

ERXOMAI, since it is intransitive, has no passive as such; the only perfect
tense is active in form: 3 pl.: ELHUQASI(N)

GI(G)NWSKW: EGNWSMENOI (-AI, -A) EISI(N); conjectured early: EGNWNTAI

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