[B-Greek] ANUYWQHNAI
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Jun 24 20:04:20 EDT 2007
It's my understanding that the alpha prefix as a privative,
copulative, or intensifying element doesn't function like the
adverbial-prepositional prefixes -- i.e. it doesn't precede the
augmented root-stem of the verb when augmented. E.g., ATIMAW has
imperfect HTIMWN, aorist HTIMHSA. ANUYOW doesn't appear in the GNT at
all, but it appears 31x in the LXX with several instances in
indicative past tenses, e.g. Sir 4:11, 11:13 ANUYWSEN, 24:13
ANUYWQHN, Dan. 5:2 ANUYWQH. In all these instances the augment
appears to be a lengthened -U-; I still think that the prefix is AN
(A), not Alpha intensifier.
Carl
On Jun 24, 2007, at 4:19 PM, George F Somsel wrote:
> Exactly. That is why I wrote a correction. We have the same
> situation in English. Normally the addition of "in-" negates
> something; however, in the case of "flamable" the addition of the
> prefix to form "inflamable" does not negate it.
>
> george
> gfsomsel
>
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Carlton Winbery <winberycl at earthlink.net>
> To: Carl W. Conrad <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
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> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 2:50:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] ANUYWQHNAI
>
>
>> I think we really ought to just stick with understanding this as a
>> compound of ANA and hUYOW.
>>
>> cwc
>>
>
> I recall seeing a sign near the elevator in my hotel in Athens with
> an arrow pointing toward the elevator, ANUYWTHR. Both ANUYOW and
> hUYOW are given in modern Greek dictionaries as "to raise" or "to
> elevate." It seems to me that the compound only intensifies the
> meaning of the verb itself.
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