[B-Greek] Definition of crasis
Carl W. Conrad
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Wed Dec 27 17:01:55 EST 2006
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (ret)
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On Wednesday, December 27, 2006, at 04:15PM, "George F Somsel" <gfsomsel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>APO + STELLW ? No.
>
>Crasis is the joining of two words to form a new series of letters in which some of the original letters are dropped. An example of this would be the conjunction of KAI + EGW to form KAGW (Mt 2.8; 10.32, 33; 11.28 . . .). Another is KAI + EAN to form KAN (Mt 21.21; 26.35; Mk 5.28 . . .). Yet another is KAKEINOS from KAI + EKEINOS (Lk 11.7; 22.12; Jn 6.57; 7.29 . . .). I think by now you will have gotten the idea.
More precisely it is the mingling of the vowel or diphthong elements at the end of one word and the beginning of another; the term also is used for the mark placed over the vowel in the resultant word indicating where the crasis or "mixing" (from KERANNUMI, mix) has taken place. The mark is more or less identical in form with a smooth-breathing mark. For more see Smyth, §§62-69 (http://tinyurl.com/vfrrx).
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>From: Marion Fox <mrfox1 at gmail.com>
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>Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:40:37 PM
>Subject: [B-Greek] Definition of crasis
>
>
>I have seen the word "crasis" in several books and did not see a definition
>of this word. From the context it seems to me that it either refers to the
>joining of two words into one word or to the blending of some letters into
>a dipthong. For example, in English we join the words "every" and "one" to
>make one word "everyone."
>
>I looked this word up in my dictionaries and the only definition I could
>find was: "... gram. a figure by which two different letters are contracted
>into one long letter or into a diphthong: called also Synae-resis."
>
>Is the term "crasis" also used for the joining of two words such as: APO and
>STELLW into APOSTELLW?
>
>
>Yours in His service,
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