[B-Greek] non-augmented Aorist

Arie Dirkzwager dirkzwager at pandora.be
Thu Feb 12 13:33:30 EST 2004


My apologies. I wrote too soon.
Looking for the situation in the Sanskrit language in A.M. Pizzagalli,
Elementi di gramatica sanscrita, Milano 1931, I find that there was an
augment in Sanskrit too.
W. Brandenstein, Griechische Sprachwissenschaft II, Berlin 1959, p. 120
writes about an augment in the Indo-iranian languages, in Armenian and in
Phrygian.

Some of the satem-languages and some of the centum-languages both having an
augment .....  Historically .......

Very interesting, but let's stop - the situation in Biblical Greek is clear.

Arie

Dr. A. Dirkzwager
Hoeselt, Belgium
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be

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Onderwerp: Re: [B-Greek] non-augmented Aorist


A little addition.
Slavic languages once had an aorist too. There are some relics.
As far as I remember there was no augment.

I looked up the matter in Z. Stieber, Zarys gramatyki porównzawczej jezyków
slowianskich, Warszawa 1989, p. 226ff.
There is only a large discussion about sigmatic and asygmatic aorists.

I think, with the message of professor Conrad, we can conclude (with
prudence) that the augment is probably a Greek innovation. But perhaps I am
too fast with my conclusions ......

Arie

Dr. A. Dirkzwager
Hoeselt, Belgium
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be





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