[B-Greek] hISTHMI I-A-I
Stephen Baldwin
stbaldwi at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 23 13:10:07 EDT 2006
Dr. Conrad:
Thanks for the reply.
I guess the next question would be, in the case of the long/short iota, is
there ever a visual difference for hISTHMI? Clearly in my stand-alone
examples not; but e.g. in a compound hISTHMI verb or something like that?
Rgds
Stephen Baldwin
stbaldwi at hotmail.com
>From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
>To: Stephen Baldwin <stbaldwi at hotmail.com>
>CC: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: Re: [B-Greek] hISTHMI I-A-I
>Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:51:13 -0400
>
>
>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
>Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
>1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
>cwconrad2 at mac.com
>WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
>
>
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