[B-Greek] Reduplication
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Jan 30 15:40:33 EST 2004
At 10:15 AM -0800 1/30/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>Is there any connection between the reduplication of
>Perfect Tense Indicatives and the reduplication of
>Present Tense verbs, such as DIDWMI or DIDASKW?
There's this difference: in present stems the reduplication is done with an
iota, in the perfect with an epsilon (although "Attic" reduplication
repeats a whole syllable (AKHKOA for AKOUW, EGRHGORA for EGEIROMAI,
etc.--fortunately there are only half a dozen of those, although we see one
of them in the aorist: the stem AGAG for AGW, aorist HGAGON).
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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