loss of intervocalic sigma
Richard A. Stauch
rstauch at charter.net
Fri Aug 30 12:04:26 EDT 2002
Hi Carl,
In my hard copy of Smyth, #120 is on pages 30-31.
FYI,
Richard Allan Stauch
Long Beach, CA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl W. Conrad [mailto:cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu]
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 5:45 AM
> To: Biblical Greek
> Cc: b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu
> Subject: [b-greek] Re: loss of intervocalic sigma
>
> At 11:42 AM +0000 8/30/02, James Tauber wrote:
> >On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:42:56 -0400, "Carl W. Conrad"
> ><cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> said:
> >> I'm a bit (a great bit) confused by your question, particularly as
> >> concerns QEOS: there's no sigma in the stem there; it's a regular
> >> second-declension -O- stem and the -S is in fact the nominative sg.
> case
> >>ending.
> >
> >Smyth gives the original stem of QEOS as *QESO.
> >
> >I did deliberate whether to just put the stem as *QEO in my database
-
> >it's always difficult to know how far to go back with the stem as one
> >would imagine a native speaker would have just viewed the stem as
*QEO
> >and the form *QESO that Smyth gives is really only of historical
> >(pre-Homeric?) interest.
>
> Where did you find this in Smyth? It's in #120 (pp. 20-21), although
> there's some useful info bearing on your question there. I'm really
> curious
> about this and about the evidence for it; my impresssion is that this
is
> not even an Indo-European root.
>
> Well, I may be wrong, but I really think that Smyth is wrong on this
one--
> I
> don't think there's any evidence of a stem in QES for this noun; I
frankly
> think that we would be seeing a declension of QEOS comparable to that
of
> NOUS (NOUS, NOU, NWi, NOUN although NT Koine has heteroclitic forms:
NOUS,
> NOOS, NOI, NOUN) or to OROS (stem ORES-): nom. OROS, gen. OROUS
(<ORESOS),
> dat. OREI (<ORESI), acc. OROS.
> --
>
> Carl W. Conrad
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