[B-Greek] Meaning of huparcho
Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000 at comcast.net
Sat Oct 8 10:28:22 EDT 2005
greg coupe wrote:
> I notice that HUPARCHO literally means "UNDER-ORIGINATES" (Hupo-under,
> archo-originates)
Why are you assuming not only that hUPARCW is a compound verb, but that the
"literal" meaning of any compound word (i.e., what any Greek speaker
automatically would have thought its unmarked meaning was) is to be/was
derived from a wooden combination of the (reputed but not substantiated)
meanings that its constituent elements seemingly possessed?
And aren't you begging the question from the start not only in your assertions
about what these constituent elements meant, but in assuming that these
elements originally (let alone later on) had only **one** basic sense?
What is your source for the "literal" meanings of hUPO and ARCW?
And can you show us any text from the ancient world in which hUPARCW was used
with the literal meaning that you (seem to) claim hUPARCW originally
possessed. We certainly should expect that there should be some such text if
the verb possessed the meaning you claim it has to have borne.
Jeffrey Gibson
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