Smile

Bart Ehrman behrman at email.unc.edu
Tue Sep 10 12:55:14 EDT 2002


   Why does GELAW mean to laugh, but PROSGELAW to smile (accd. to the
lexica).  Couldn't PROSGELAW mean "to laugh at" someone?  (cf. Infancy
Gospel of Thomas 8.1 -- GELAW -- and 15.4 -- PROSGELAW)

-- Bart Ehrman
   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill




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