[B-Greek] Imperative of ANISTHMI

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Mar 24 21:08:40 EST 2004


At 5:56 PM -0800 3/24/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>Mounce has this on EIMI:
>
>"To form the imperative of EIMI, normal endings are
>added to the root *ES. EIMI has no aorist form."
>
>2 sg ISQI
>3 sg ESTW
>
>2 pl ESTE
>3 pl ESTWSAN
>
>Mounce doesn't exactly say which imperatives this EIMI
>conjugation represents. I guessed the PRESENT ACTIVE.
>
>If that is so, then does the AORIST Active imperatives
>of -MI verbs (example, ANISTHMI) use the same endings
>as the PRESENT Active of EIMI?

No, not so simply; you have to learn the categories of verbs, and for the
really irregular verbs--as the four major -MI verbs are indeed (irregular):
you have to learn the details of their conjugation; the aorist active
singular imperative ending may be -S (DOS), or it may be -QI; for thematic
verbs the 1st aor. sg. imperative is simply the thematic vowel -E, for
sigmatic aorist verbs the 1st aor. sg. imperative is -SON.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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