[B-Greek] EWN (correction)

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Sep 25 06:32:35 EDT 2006


On Sep 24, 2006, at 8:04 PM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

>
> 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.

Correction: one does find EWN in Homer, but not EWNTA; this is simply
the participial ending attached to the root of EIMI, ES-, so that the
resultant forms, after loss of medial sigma, are EWN/EOUSA/EON with
stem EONT-

Carl W. Conrad
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