[B-Greek] Unique Vs. Begotten
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at ioa.com
Fri Jun 10 08:25:20 EDT 2005
On Jun 10, 2005, at 8:08 AM, James Ernest wrote:
> 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
Smyth's grammar is chock-full of this sort of information; so is AT
Robertson. I sometimes think that these
books might better be read straight through (at least whole sections)
than consulted for reference from
the index. At any rate, Smyth has a full account of formative
elements §§822-899, of present-tense
formatives §§496-531, of vowel-gradation §§27-38, and the extremely"
useful Appendix "List of Verbs",
pp. 684-722 notes vowel-changes, dialectal variants, roots, and
historical changes -- it's the basis for my
own compilation of Irregular Verbs (http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/Docs/
IrregularVerbsGNT.pdf).
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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