[B-Greek] hISTHMI I-A-I

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Oct 22 16:51:13 EDT 2006


On Oct 22, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Stephen Baldwin wrote:

> Ladies and Gentlemen:
> I am curious about the augment in the imperfect for hISTHMI.
> I'm familiar with the reduplication to rough breathing
> *STA > SISTA > hISTA
> and the syllabic augment in e.g EXW in the imperfect which leads to a
> contraction:
> *SEK > ESEK > EIXON
>
> What happens to hISTHMI? The augment seems to make no difference  
> between the
> present and the imperfect...
>
> 1S-P-A-I: hISTHMI
> 1S-I-A-I: hISTHN
>
> Is there an explanation for this?

Yes; the Iota in the imperfect, where it is augmented, is LONG; in  
the present-tense form, its SHORT.


Carl W. Conrad
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