[B-Greek] Verb Stems and Liquid verbs

Delbert Flora delbert.flora at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 27 19:31:10 EDT 2007


1. I'm under the impression that the 'stem' of a verb is what carries its 
basic meaning. ARCW and ARCOMAI have different meanings due to the Active or 
Middle form. How does the meaning of the verb change when it retains the 
same stem?

How does Voice affect meaning of a stem?

2. With liquid verbs, the Aorist Active tense formative is A, not SA. My 
tutor says this is incorrect. Mounce uses the liquid verb MENW and gives the 
Aorist Active as EMEINA, which demonstrates the formative is A not SA. But 
my tutor says that the S is seen in the I added to the stem, called 
compensatory lengthening. The S actually drops out when it touches the N, 
and to show the dropping of the S, the stem changes from E to EI. Is this 
right and is this important to distinguish?


Kindly,
Delbert Flora

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