[B-Greek] Deponent verbs
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 26 00:11:37 EDT 2006
"Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
> But note, Mitch, the future ELEUSOMAI from the same
> root as HLQON
> (older HLUQON) and ELHLUQA (older ELHLOUQA).
> I never would have considered the active forms HLQON
> and ELHLUQA
> "deponent" in any sense whatsoever, but I've found
> that some have
> referred to them as "deponent" -- perhaps on grounds
> that any "non-
> conformity" to expectations with respect to voice
> forms may be deemed
> a mark of "deponency." Of course, properly speaking,
> all "aorist
> passives" in QHN/QHS/QH are "active" inasmuch as
> they have an
> "active" inflection.
Can you explain why these are labeled "active
inflections" but middle/passive in meaning.
Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas
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