[B-Greek] zaw - zww - zhw
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Feb 16 08:44:21 EST 2004
At 12:29 PM +0000 2/16/04, D Jongkind wrote:
>Dear list,
>
>A question on the underlying form of the verb ZW.
>Bauer - Aland's dictionary lists it under ZAW, so does LSJ (simply to refer
>you to ZW) though the latter mentions that it is a contraction of ZWW.
>Moulton-Howard, Syntax, lists the verb under ZHW, apparently assuming that H
>+ W contracts into W (ZW, ZHiS, ZHi etc.).
>
>Is ZW a strange -AW verb, or simply irregular throughout or something else?
>
>Regards,
>Dirk Jongkind
The verb is rightly listed in lexicons as ZAW: it is an alpha-contract
verb, but the alpha in it is originally a LONG-alpha, a vowel that very
early in Attic and Ionic dialects changed to eta; consequently it is one of
a very few verbs that really have (in their historical forms) contractions
from an eta-stem, as if ZHW; another such is CRAOMAI. One actually doesn't
ever see alpha-stem forms of these verbs. You might like to check Smyth
§641.
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Carl W. Conrad
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