[B-Greek] Novice questions about declining nouns
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat Dec 31 08:50:11 EST 2005
On Saturday, December 31, 2005, at 08:27AM, OJ Keenan <ojkeenan at gmail.com> wrote:
>Dear Group,
>
>STANDARD DISCLAIMER: I am a Novice, this is my first NTG class.
>
>Lesson Two - declining nouns. Of the thirty or so my tutor has given
>me I'm stuck on two of them (I think my tutor uses a slightly bizarre
>transliteration system, but I will use it and write the greek
>characters alongside):
>
>propheeton (pi, rho, omikron, phi, eta, tau, omikron, nu)
>oikow (omikron, iota, kapa, omega)
>
>They're in inflected form - I can't determine what declension they
>belong to in order to work out the base form that I'll be able to use
>in a lexicon.
>
>Any handy hints?
Yes, and first of all, I would urge you to read through the BG FAQ
and use our standard BG transliteration scheme for representation
of Greek characters (we may get to using Unicode some day, but we
haven't arrived there yet). You can access the FAQ at the list's
home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/faq.txt
Using our standard transliteration, I'd write your two words as
PROFHTON and OIKOW
My problem with these two words is that neither is really quite
standard in Biblical (or older) Greek.
PROFHTON should probably be PROFHTHN; that would be the accusative
singular form of the noun PROFHTHS, "prophet"
OIKOW should probably be OIKEW; that would be the first-person
singular indicative active of the verb "inhabit" or "dwell in"
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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