[B-Greek] John 19:30

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Feb 9 13:23:46 EST 2004


At 4:59 PM +0000 2/9/04, Austin Alexander wrote:
>Maybe I am blind, but can anyone please explain to me why in John 19:30
>"TETELESTAI", the perfect passive indicative 3rd person singular of TELEW,
>that sigma is present before the primary passive ending "TAI"?

See Smyth §636, which I won't cite, as it's a longer paragraph. You can
access it at the Perseus site:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0007&layout=&loc=836

In the case of TETELESTAI, the -S- may not be based on analogy so much as
on the fact that TELES- is the original root of the verb (TELOS/TELES, with
O/E vowel gradation).
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Carl W. Conrad
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