[B-Greek] otw
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat May 7 07:29:19 EDT 2005
On May 6, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Minton, Ron wrote:
> I know otw (omicron-tau-omega) can be the dat. sing. for the
> indefinite
> relative pronoun hostis. Does anyone know any other way in which this
> word was used?
I'm assuming that you mean hOTWi with rough-breathing and iota
subscript. That certainly is the dative sg. m/n of hOSTIS nor can I
imagine it being anything else. This form doesn't appear in Biblical
Greek at all, although the corresponding genitive hOTOU does. Smyth
§339 offers a full accounting of the forms of hOSTIS. I recall my
surprise on learning that the forms hOTOU and hOTWi are not related
to the genitive and dative forms of the article but rather that they
derive from the TE- stem forms that appear in the oblique cases in
alternation from the TI- stems appearing in nom. and acc.
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