[B-Greek] hn eixen

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed May 16 08:23:51 EDT 2007


On May 16, 2007, at 8:04 AM, Litteral John wrote:

> I was curious to how this goes together.  The 'hn' has the breathing
> mark giving it the H sound.  Is there a special idiom to this?  How
> would this be translated.  Thanks.
>
> John Litteral

I would urge you to use the standard B-Greek transliteration
scheme set forth at http://ibiblio.org/bgreek/bgtransliteration.html
as part of the FAQ: http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/faq.html

The expression you're asking about is hHN EICEN --
hHN is the relative pronoun fem. sg. acc. and presumably the
object of the verb EICEN, impf. indic. 3d sg. of ECW ('have,
hold, etc.').

It could be translated "which he/she was holding" -- but in
order to understanding it, we'd need to know the antecedent
of the relative pronoun hHN and we'd also need to know the
subject of the verb EICEN.


Carl W. Conrad
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