Redup. in aorist

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Sun Mar 5 12:48:58 EST 2000


At 15:05 05/03/00, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>448. Reduplication in the Second Aorist.--agô lead forms the second aorist 
>êg-agon, ag-agô, ag-agoimi, ag-agein, middle êg-agomên. So also ên-enka 
>and ên-enkon from pherô.
>
>448 D. Hom. has many reduplicated second aorists, as pe-pithon from peithô 
>(pith-) persuade, keklomên, ke-klomenos from kelomai command, 
>le-lathesthai from lanthanô (lath-) escape the notice of, pe-phidesthai 
>from pheidomai (phid-) spare, êr-aron from arariskô (ar-) join, ôr-oron 
>from ornu_mi arouse. The indicative forms may take the syllabic augment, 
>as in e-pe-phradon from phrazô (phrad-) tell. From eniptô chide and eru_kô 
>check come êni_papon and eneni_pon, and êru_kakon.

Thanks, Carl. I was about to post my reply to Jason with those two 
citations, plus a  couple more, and the Perseus URL for Smyth in case he 
wasn't aware of it

 >>>>>>>>>>>>
If you go to:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/sourceindex?lookup=Smyth+1956
and enter "Smyth 549" in the SEARCH box, you will get:
[ unfortunately, at the moment you have to have the printed copy of Smyth 
to hand to find the appropriate section because you cannot search on the 
text itself just yet, only on the Smyth paragraph numbers ]

549. Verbs of the First Class (499) adding a
                     thematic vowel to the verbstem form the second
                     aorist (1) by reduplication (494), as agô lead
                     êgagon,

Scroll back and you will find:

542 D. Mixed Aorists.--Hom. has some forms
                     of the first aorist with the thematic vowel (o/e) of
                     the second aorist; as axete, axesthe (agô lead),
                     <snip>
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Regards
Maurice


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