[B-Greek] nouns ending in MA

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Jun 28 05:08:54 EDT 2006


On Jun 27, 2006, at 11:29 PM, paul mangion wrote:

> greetings,
>
>      i was wondering if there were any rules / guidelines regarding  
> how nouns are formed by adding suffixes (suffices?) in koine.  i'm  
> particularly interested in the link between CARIS and CARISMA.   
> having said that, "rules of thumb" are my  concern.

The suffix -MA (gen, -MATOS) attached to a verbal root generally  
signifies a product or a result of verbal action, e.g. PRAGMA from  
PRASSW/PRAC, POIHMA from POIEW, CARISMA from CARIZW, etc. A very  
useful treatment of this whole matter of roots and various sorts of  
word-formation may be found in Smyth's grammar, §§822-899 (at the  
Perseus site: http://tinyurl.com/zr2oa

> paul
> couridjah, australia

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