long words

B. Ward Powers bwpowers at optusnet.com.au
Fri Sep 6 08:45:46 EDT 2002


Hi, all.

I find it intriguing to read the long words that people have found.

And what particularly interests me is to see how many morphs (meaning-bits) 
we can find in the one word.


At 10:14 AM 020905 -0700, Vincent Broman wrote:
>On Wednesday, 4 September 2002 09:50, Clwinbery at aol.com wrote:
> > In a message dated 9/4/02 11:40:11 AM, rduggin at comcast.net writes:
> > >SUGKATAKLHRONOMHQHSONTAI
> > >Off the top of my head, I can't think of a longer verb in biblical
> > >literature.


SUGKATA-KLHRONOMH-QH-S-O-NTAI: 6 morphs.



> > >The longest one I can recall in the NT is the aor. infin.
> > >ANAKEFALAIWSASQAI, Ep.1:10.


ANA-KEFALAIW-SA-SQ-AI: 5 morphs.


> > What of SUGKATATEQEIMENOS in Luke 23:51 = 17 letters. I can't think of
> > others at the moment.
> > Carlton Winbery


SUGKATA-TE-QEI-MEN-OS: 5 morphs.


>The longest words in the na26/27 NT are easily found by sed|tr|grep|sort.
>PROKEXEIROTONHMENOIS acts-10-41
>DEISIDAIMONESTEROUS acts-17-22
>KATADUNASTEUOMENOUS acts-10-38
>
>Trust a doctor to use the six foot words.
>
>Vincent Broman
>San Diego


PRO-KE-CEIROTONH-MEN-OIS: 5 morphs.
DEISIDAIMON-ESTER-OUS: 3 morphs.
KATA-DUNASTEU-O-MEN-OUS: 5 morphs.

My candidate for the word form in the New Testament with the most morphs is 
a variant reading in Mark 15:10: PAR-E-DE-DW-K-EI-SAN. Only 14 letters 
(many fewer than some of the long words in this thread), but 7 morphs. I 
think it is the only 7-morph word in the Greek NT (and then not found in 
this form in the critical text, which has PARADEDWKEISAN instead, with 6 
morphs).

Have I missed any other 7-morph word?

Ward

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