[B-Greek] -MI verbs

Doug Hoxworth dhoxworth at charter.net
Mon Sep 15 10:55:56 EDT 2003


><Mitch>
>What does 'thematic' vowel mean?

<doug>
i know carl already answered this but i wanted to add 
something.

in greek there are two verb conjugation types:

1) Thematic (-W) verbs
2) Athematic (-MI) verbs

they are just two different conjugations one which used a 
connecting (thematic) vowel(1) and one which didn't(2).

><Mitch>
>And, why did some -MI verbs stay as -MI verbs in the
NT? (TIQHMI for example)

<doug>
from what i understand, -MI verbs were phasing out in the 
koine period and in the process of being replaced by 
thematic (-W) forms (carl pointed out the fact that both 
conjugations of the same word appear in the NT for 
AFIHMI/AFIW; this is evidence of this change/process). 
languages are always in flux as carl said and it just so 
happened that some were still being used at this time.



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