[B-Greek] Etymology

Jerker Karlsson jerker.karlsson at kdu.se
Sat Mar 29 01:32:31 EST 2003


>>I'm also keen to know if it is significant that OUSIA was made from the
>>participle stem and not the active stem, i.e does it because of this
>>denote state rather than action. Looking at the examples above (APOUSIA,
>>PAOUSIA, OUSIA, EXOUSIA) the all seem to bear the notion of a state,
>>absence, presence, existence, *permitnce. Does this circumstantial nature
>>of these words derive from the fact that they all are taken from the
>>participle form or does it lie inherent in the stem ES itself?
"Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> writes:
>
>The stem of the verb alternates between ES-, SE-, and SO-. 

In which forms of EIMI is the 0 and E vowel gradations present?

/Jerker



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