[B-Greek] "Christ is born" in Greek
Eric Weiss
papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 23 10:00:59 EST 2004
I received no responses to my earlier inquiry (12/14)
regarding this, but with Christmas arriving in a couple
days, I'll ask again. :^)
Thanks, and Merry Christmas!
(please excuse and/or correct my possible misspellings)
At Easter, the Greek Orthodox greeting is CRISTOS ANESTH
("Christ is risen!"), with the response ALHQWS ANESTH
("Indeed, He is risen.").
1. What is the parsing for this form (assuming it's Koine, and not modern
Greek) - is it aor. act. ind. 3. sing., i.e., "Christ rose"? If so, why isn't the
perfect used, i.e., ANESTHKE(N)? If ANESTH is actually a modern Greek
perfect, then would the Koine form of this greeting be ANESTHKE(N)?
2. What would be a comparable Christmas greeting of "Christ is born!"
a. Would one use the aorist passive (assuming the aorist is what is or
should be used with "Christ is risen") - i.e., "CRISTOS EGENNHQH /
ETECQH"?
- OR -
b. Would one use the perfect passive - i.e., "CRISTOS GEGENNHTAI /
TETEGTAI"?
3. What is the actual Greek Orthodox Christmas Greeting? One Website
says "Kala Christouyenna" which I assume is "Happy Christ's birth"
- KALA CRISTOU GENNA? Would this be the Koine form as well,
or would a different word than KALA be used; would CRISTOUGENNA
be one word as well?
Eric S. Weiss
Eric S. Weiss
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