Recognition: 2nd Aorist
Carlton Winbery
winberyc at popalex1.linknet.net
Tue Jul 7 14:51:12 EDT 1998
Ward Powers wrote;
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>The most common pattern that is found (it is followed by seven verbs) is
>this: "Take the aorist root (the second aorist form, minus augment and
>ending) and add "N" before the last consonant and "AN" after it." Thus from
>aorist ELAQON one gets LANQANW, from EMAQON, MANQANW, and from EPUQOMHN,
>PUNQANOMAI. The assimilation rule also applies, where relevant. This rule
>states, in relation to nasal liquid consonants, "Wherever a nasal liquid
>consonant is followed by a morph commencing with a consonant of a different
>place of articulation, the nasal changes its place of articulation to
>correspond with that of the consonant which follows it." Thus ELABON gives
>initially LANBANW, and then in accordance with this assimilation rule the
>"N", which is the dental nasal liquid, changes to "M", which is the labial
>nasal liquid, because the following phoneme, "B", is a labial. This gives
>us LAMBANW. Similarly in front of a palatal consonant, the inserted nu will
>change to the palatal nasal consonant "G" (enga, pronounced "-ng-", not to
>be confused with gamma). Thus: EQIGON, QIGGANW; ELACON, LAGCANW; ETUCON,
>TUGCANW. That lists the seven verbs of this category.
>
I would agree with most of what Ward says here. I would add to his list of
seven five other verbs, AISQANOMAI, HiSQOMHN; hUPOLIMPANW; OPTANOMAI,
hAMARTANW, which has both hHMARTON & hHMARTHSA. Another verb that may be
included is BLASTANW, EBLASTHSA (the only one taking a first aorist, but
there may be an alternate stem, BLASTAW). I certainly agree that most of
these verbs take second aorists.
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I agree with Wards treatment of second aorist in his book mentioned in his
post.
Carlton L. Winbery
Fogleman Professor of Religion
Louisiana College
Pineville, LA 71359
winberyc at popalex1.linknet.net
winbery at andria.lacollege.edu
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