long words
Richard Ghilardi
qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
Fri Sep 6 12:37:08 EDT 2002
Dear Ward and my fellow b-greekers,
On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 22:45:46 +1000 "B. Ward Powers"
<bwpowers at optusnet.com.au> writes:
> 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.
>
> SUGKATA-KLHRONOMH-QH-S-O-NTAI: 6 morphs.
>
> SUGKATA-TE-QEI-MEN-OS: 5 morphs.
>
> PRO-KE-CEIROTONH-MEN-OIS: 5 morphs.
> DEISIDAIMON-ESTER-OUS: 3 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?
>
Pardon me, Ward, but I would say that you have:
SUG-KATA-KLHRO-NOMH-QH-S-O-NTAI: 8 morphs.
Besides which...
SUG-KATA-TE-QEI-MEN-OS: 6 morphs.
PRO-KE-CEIRO-TONH-MEN-OIS: 6 morphs.
DEISI-DAIMON-ESTER-OUS: 4 morphs.
On the other hand, maybe you haven't missed any other words EXACTLY 7
morphs long! ;-) None of the above is just that long.
Or perhaps I have misunderstood the meaning of "morph."
Yours in His grace,
Richard Ghilardi -- qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
New Haven, CT USA
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