[B-Greek] BBG: Elementary Parsing Question Contract Verbs
James Tauber
jtauber at jtauber.com
Wed Sep 13 01:24:43 EDT 2006
On 13/09/2006, at 7:15 AM, Randall Buth wrote:
> Tauber egrapsen
>> Note that POIEI was an earlier alternative form of the 2sg present
> middle. Both it and POIHi would likely have been pronounced the same
> in the 1st century, mind you.>
>
> They were different in the first century as well as in previous
> centuries. 1c [IPA: pyi] did not sound like [IPA: pye]. It was later
> in the 2-4 century CE that H [e] raised up to join with EI [i] .
Yes, you're quite right. I was being overly aggressive in my
iotacising :-)
James
More information about the B-Greek
mailing list