[B-Greek] Questions on Gal 2:17 - AUTOI

Kelly McDonald w4kpm at adelphia.net
Thu Oct 21 08:12:22 EDT 2004


Thanks to all who responded to my post.

I still feel as if I am swimming in Greek, but doing pretty well, since
I haven't done much of anything with this language for about 6 years
prior to taking an exegesis class.

Sincerely,
Kelly McDonald



On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 07:35, Harold R. Holmyard III wrote:
> 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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