[B-Greek] Unique Vs. Begotten
James Ernest
jdemail at charter.net
Fri Jun 10 08:08:49 EDT 2005
Carl, you wrote:
> But with regard to the
> etymology, let me just
> state that the root in question has three forms with vowel
> gradation:
> GEN, GON, and GN.
> The nominal root is GENES, whence the noun TO GENOS and the 2-
> termination adjective
> MONOGENHS. The verb GI(G)NOMAI uses the present-stem reduplication
> GI- and the zero-
> grade form of the root GN to for GI-GN-O-MAI. The verb GENNAW uses
> the present-stem
> formative -NA with the e-grade of the root to form an alpha-contract
> verb GEN-NA-W. Presumably
> both the noun TO GENOS and the aorist form of the verb
> (what's called
> the "root aorist")
> EGENOMHN are both primitive.
<snip>
This is helpful and interesting. For future reference: what book or books
would I need to be able to pull from my shelf in order to be able to find
for myself for any word the information you give here regarding the GEN,
GON, and GN stems, definitions of terminology such as "zero-grade" and
"root-aorist," discussions of morphemes such as "the present-stem formative
-NA," determination of which forms are primitive, etc.?
James Ernest
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