Fw: Concepts and Words
Tolliver Family
tolliver at tstar.net
Tue Jun 30 15:38:39 EDT 1998
Actually, the root of kunew has nothing to do with dogs... the "n" is a
nasal infix to show present marker.
the real root is same which yields "kiss" in English. So you might
translate proskunew
"kiss up to" ;-)
ken
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> From: dalmatia at eburg.com
> To: Biblical Greek <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
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> The roots of PROSKUNEW are 'toward' and 'dog', and the meaning of the
> term is apparently evolving through GNT times, eh?
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