[B-Greek] oida

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sun Jun 26 17:50:32 EDT 2005


On Jun 26, 2005, at 5:29 PM, George F Somsel wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:55:51 -0500 (CDT) <cmeadows3 at verizon.net>  
> writes:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Regarding oida...
>>
>> There is some shifting from oi- to ei- in some forms.  Is this
>> related to vowel gradation?  I thougt oi- and ei- were the same
>> grade?  Any answers?
>>
>> Thanx.
>> C Meadows
>>
> _______________
>
> This, like your question on KLAIW relates to the old digamma.  The  
> root
> was (again, "3" = digamma) 3ID-

The digamma does not really explain all of what is being asked --   
except in the aorist indicative where the digamma between augment and  
aorist stem evanesced: EfIDON  (where "f" = digamma) yielded EIDON.  
But the root of this verb is fEID/fOID/fID, and the perfect tense  
forms show the O-grade in the indicative OIDA KTL. but the E-grade in  
the participle EIDWS and infinitive EIDENAI.

Carl W. Conrad
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