[B-Greek] Novice questions about declining nouns

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Sat Dec 31 09:31:48 EST 2005



"Carl W. Conrad" wrote:

>
> 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.
>

[snip]

>
> OIKOW should probably be OIKEW; that would be the first-person
> singular indicative active of the verb "inhabit" or "dwell in"

Except that the word OJ is referring to is OIKW (as he notes when he spells it out as
"omikron [sic], iota, kapa [sic], omega".  and since he is talking about nouns. So it
is the dative of OIKOS, yes?  Or have I misunderstood?

Jeffrey
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