Words Classified By Roots
Roger Birch
rsb1 at primus.com.au
Thu Sep 7 04:14:47 EDT 2000
Recently, I have been doing some reading on classification of words acording to their roots with a view to helping build my overall Greek vocabulary.
However, a friend, who has a very different theological position to my own, recently gave me some of his Greek material regarding the root of the word QEOS, claiming its root is QE (from which TIQHMI comes) and hence has an underlying meaning of 'Placer'.
I have looked through Metzger's Lexical Aids for Students of NT Greek in which QEOS is not included under the root of QE, and also a number of other books such as those by Van Voorst and Trenchard where the cognates for QEOS and TIQHMI are kept separate. I also note that in Mounce's Morphology of Biblical Greek (p.41), he quotes the root of QEOS as being QESO from which the intervocalic sigma has dropped out but the resulting EO have not contracted.
Does anyone have a definitive source for studies into the roots of words? I am particularly interested in the root for QEOS and would like to know, for example, if Mounce's claim be supported from elsewhere?
As a more general comment, the English word 'dog' doesn't come from a root of 'do', so just how far can we take root studies, and how certain can we be about them?
Any comments would be useful.
Roger Birch
Brisbane, Australia
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