[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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