[B-Greek] Fwd: Can anyone translate this word?

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Sun Jan 15 18:23:25 EST 2006


On Jan 15, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Harold Holmyard wrote:

> christophershelt at netscape.com wrote:
>
>> Thanking you in advance. Chris.
>>
>> --- Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> From: <christophershelt at netscape.com>
>> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 07:37:25 -0800 (PST)
>> To: anamathetes at yahoogroups.com ,
>>    "Dora C Pozzi" <dcpozzi at uh.edu>, greekstudy at nxport.com
>> Subject: Can anyone translate this word?
>>
>> To One And All--
>>     I am having a hard time finding this word.  It appears to be  
>> the 1st Aorist of something.  I'll transliterate:
>>
>> hFOIHSEN
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> HH: It looks like a typo that is supposed to be:
>
> hPOIHSEN  = he did or made
>
> That would be the aorist of POIEW.

Not if that's a rough breathing before the P; the aorist of POIEW  
would be EPOIHSEN.


Carl W. Conrad
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