[B-Greek] what's the inf. of AGAPAW?
JPitaly41 at aol.com
JPitaly41 at aol.com
Thu Mar 13 11:23:53 EST 2003
>>>B-GreekHi, I am puzzled at the inf. of AGAPAW.
In my analytical lexicon there is AGAPAN in stead of AGAPAiN as the inf. of the verb AGAPAW.
My question is that according to the contracting rule, the AGAPAW drops W first when forming its inf., and then adds EIN to the stem AGAPA-, and the ending letter A of the stem meets the forming ending EIN, after contracting comes AiN with a circumflex. So the inf. of AGAPAW should be AGAPAiN. But why the lexicon tells me a AGAPAN?>>>>
well david the paradigm is like this for the -EW, -AW, and -OW contract verbs.---the present active infinitive of FILEW is FILEIN--the present active inf. of AGAPAW is AGAPAN--the present active inf. for DHLOW is DHLOUN.
the contraction we see for the -AW contract verbs follow these rules:(i will use the verb TIMAW for example)
1. the A at the end of the stem combines with a following E or H to produce A:
A + E/H = A
eg) TIMA/ETE = TIMATE ; TIMA/HTE = TIMATE
2. the A at the end of the stem combines with a following O or W to produce W:
A + O/W = W
eg) TIMA/OMEN = TIMWMEV ; TIMA/WMEN = TIMWMEN
3. any I in a syllable following the A goes subscript
eg) TIMA/EIS = TIMAiS (i represents subscript under the A)
--these rules that I quoted are from James Voelz "Greek Grammer" pages 203-204--
Something that one wonders about is by the third rule mentioned here one would expect a i subscript under the A in TIMAN but that is not the case. What we have here is TIMA/EIN which prior to Koine was morphed as TIMAEIN then in Koine changed to TIMAN not TIMAiN. One would think that there is no i subscript due to the normal development of the Greek language or just an irregularity but? reffering back to rule 3:
3. any I in a syllable following the A goes subscript
eg) TIMA/EIS = TIMAiS (i represents subscript under the A)
One would be led to think that there should be a i subscript under the A in TIMAN eg)TIMA/EIN = TIMAiN as this does happen in TIMA/EIS = TIMAiS...but that is not the case to my knowledge with the present active inf. of AGAPAW.
I hope this helps,
Jim Paradiso
"A lowly Koine Greek student at the undergraduate level"
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