[B-Greek] subject/verb root question

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon May 10 11:59:11 EDT 2004


At 9:48 AM -0500 5/10/04, Harold R. Holmyard III wrote:
>Dear Micah,
>
>>      Just a quick question, can anyone tell me what it's called when
>>the Subject and the verb of a sentence come from the same root word?
>>Thank you.
>
>HH: One says that the subject and verb are cognates.

Well, one can occasionally meet something like hO BASILEUS BASILEUEI, but
more common is the "cognate accusative" where the direct object derives
from the same root as the verb, as SPENDEIN SPONDAS "pour libations" or
GRAFEIN GRAFAS, "write writings."
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