Genesis 8:3,4 HLOTTTONOUTO

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Apr 12 13:18:26 EDT 2002


At 12:17 PM -0400 4/12/02, Richard Ghilardi wrote:
>Dear B-greekers,
>
>Carl Conrad wrote:
>
><< LSJ has two different verbs, both of which would produce the imperfect
>middle 3d sg. HLATTONOUTO (since E + O and O + O both contract to -OU-).
>>>
>
>While Carl is perfectly correct that both E+O and O+O contract to OU,
>these are not the pair of contracting vowels found in the verbs in
>question.
>
>For ELATTONEW: impf mid 3d sg (HLATTONEETO) --> HLATTONEITO
>
>For ELATTONOW: impf mid 3d sg (HLATTONOETO) --> HLATTONOUTO
>
>Thus the contracting pairs are: E+E and O+E.
>
>Carl was thinking of the 3d pl. where the contracting pairs are as he
>states them above.

Right; I read HLATTONOUNTO in the header as if it had been HLOTTONOUTO,
even missing the erroneous O for A in the header.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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