[B-Greek] QHN QHS QH... as Middle

Delbert Flora delbert.flora at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 16 18:14:16 EDT 2007


Follow up to this statement by Dr. C. Conrad:

>The fact is that it is erroneous to think of the -QH- endings  as 
>distinctly passive; they are, like the MAI/SAI/TAI,MHN/SO/TO  endings, 
>ambivalently middle-passive. An important fact of Greek  linguistic history 
>is that the -QH- forms increasingly came to  replace the older 
>second-aorist MHN/SO/TO aorists. E.g., the form  EGENHQHN supplants the 
>older form EGENOMHN with no demonstrable  difference in meaning from 
>EGENOMHN.


For some reason, I was under the impression that MOST MHN/SO/TO forms are 
pragmatically (how they are actually used in the GNT) middle, and that MOST 
QHN/QHS/QH forms are pragmatically passive. Given the above information, is 
my impression wrong? It would not make sense for a primarily middle 
conjugation to be replaced by a primarily passive conjugation.

Delbert Flora

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