Hello:
I am reading Mounce's online Teknia blog entry regarding chapter(21) regarding the Imperfect Indicative.
In this post on aktionsart, he mentions the greek word διεστέλλετο.
I am not understanding where the augment is found in this word.
Is this a compound verb?
Imperfect of διεστέλλετο
Re: Imperfect of διεστέλλετο
It is indeed: δια-στέλλομαι. The augment in a compound verb ordinarily comes between the prefix and the verbal stem; in this instance the α of δια- is elided before the ε in δι-ε-στέλλετο.Jonathan Michaels wrote:Hello:
I am reading Mounce's online Teknia blog entry regarding chapter(21) regarding the Imperfect Indicative.
In this post on aktionsart, he mentions the greek word διεστέλλετο.
I am not understanding where the augment is found in this word.
Is this a compound verb?
οὔτοι ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς πάντα θεοὶ θνητοῖς ὑπέδειξαν,
ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ ζητέοντες ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἄμεινον. (Xenophanes, Fragment 16)
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ ζητέοντες ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἄμεινον. (Xenophanes, Fragment 16)
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)