[B-Greek] off list response for basic ANHR/ANDROS paradigm

Richard Ghilardi qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
Mon Mar 24 09:45:20 EST 2003


James,

I would simply add this to Carl's very thorough response:

Voc. sing. A/NER        pl. A/NDRES

Apparently the older stem ANER was retained for the vocative.

Yours in His grace,

Richard Ghilardi -- qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
New Haven, CT USA

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 05:59:22 -0500 "Carl W. Conrad"
<cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> writes:
> At 4:31 PM +1100 3/24/03, bigbone at alphalink.com.au wrote:
> >Hi list,
> >
> >I'm currently at a remote location and do not have access to a copy 
> of my MBG
> >or other references...
> >
> >I would like to refresh myself on the ANWR/ANDROS paradigm, and 
> can't
> >remember whether it follows PATHR & MATHR or whether it misses a 
> few epsilons
> >in the accusative singular and plurals.
> >
> >Please could someone send me the paradigm off-list?  & apologies 
> for this
> >basic question.
> 
> It's ANHR/ANDROS (although there are very old--Homeric forms of the 
> root,
> not the noun, with ANWR/ANOR); it does essentially follow the 
> pattern of
> PATHR and MATHR with the one significant difference that a "prop" 
> consonant
> -D- developed phonetically between N and R replacing the older stem 
> ANER-.
> The paradigm is:
> 
>         Nom. sg. ANHR        pl. ANDRES
>         Gen. sg. ANDROS pl. ANDRWN
>         Dat. sg. ANDRI  pl. ANDRASI
>         Acc. sg. ANDRA        pl. ANDRAS
> -- 


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