[B-Greek] EWN

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Sep 24 20:04:54 EDT 2006


On Sep 24, 2006, at 7:55 PM, Oun Kwon wrote:

> I see these words in Freer logion
>   EWN, EWNTA
>
> What are the accents? What do they mean?  It does not appear in a
> dictionary I have.

Looks like participial forms of EAW (permit, allow): m. sg. nom. and  
m. sg. acc. (or possibly n. pl. nom./acc.); accent is circumflex on  
the -W- for original -AO- with acute on the -A-.
But actually one finds EWN and EWNTA from EIMI in Homer, where it is  
presumably Ionic-- and without knowing more about the Freer logion  
you're talking about, it's hard to say more precisely than that.


Carl W. Conrad
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