[B-Greek] Questions on Gal 2:17 - AUTOI
Harold R. Holmyard III
hholmyard at ont.com
Thu Oct 21 07:35:53 EDT 2004
Dear Carlton,
>The basic verb stem in this verb is EUR (see aorist EURON). This
>class verb (class V in Brooks and Winbery, Morphology) adds ISK for
>the first principle part (present and imperfect). In the other
>principle parts there is added an epenthetic E/H (regularly done in
>liquid stem verbs). Hence the sixth principle part which adds QH to
>the stem has an E added to the rho for euphony.
Thank you. I suspected that there might be a sort of aorist root. I
gather then that the form would be EUREQWMEN if the verb were an
aorist passive subjunctive first person plural of EURISKW. You make
it sound as though a good way to think is to look for what Goetchius
calls the verb base, "the morpheme or combination of morphemes which
remains invariable throughout the entire paradigm of the verb." So in
ISTHMI it would be the -ST-, with other items added for various
reasons. It would be those various reasons that can be hard to figure
out and why a book like your Morphology might be helpful.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
>In a message dated 10/20/04 12:04:55 PM, hholmyard at ont.com writes:
>
>>Dear Remington,
>>
>>I wrote: "And before the passive ending, verbs in -SK go to -C. So
>>possibly the 1st aorist passive subjunctive form could have been
>>EURICQWMEN."
>>
>>Actually I do not see instructions to drop the "S," so perhaps it
>>would be EURISCQWMEN.
>>
>
>The basic verb stem in this verb is EUR (see aorist EURON). This
>class verb (class V in Brooks and Winbery, Morphology) adds ISK for
>the first principle part (present and imperfect). In the other
>principle parts there is added an epenthetic E/H (regularly done in
>liquid stem verbs). Hence the sixth principle part which adds QH to
>the stem has an E added to the rho for euphony.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Carlton Winbery
>Louisiana College
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