[B-Greek] DEIKNUMI: 2S endings variation

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue Apr 1 05:06:54 EDT 2008


On Mar 31, 2008, at 11:07 PM, Carlton Winbery wrote:

>> Ladies and Gentlemen:
>> A quick-and-easy question if I may, in the interests of exactness:
>> 1. I note from Smyth s418 that 2S-P-A-I of DEIKNUMI is DEIKNUS.
>> 2. Mounce BBG p364 listing his athematic paradigms, has the same
>> being DEIKNUEIS
>> 3. Mounce MBG p308 v-3c(2) notes also that athematic DEIKNUMI has a
>> thematic variation, DEIKNUW.
>>
>> Is it reasonable to assume that for the athematic conjugation, Smyth
>> is correct and that Mounce has, in the instance of 2S-P-A-I,
>> introduced the thematic form in his athematic conjugation?
>>
>> Rgds
>> Stephen Baldwin
>> stbaldwi at hotmail.com
>>
> Steve,
>
> In John 2:18 the second sing. form is DEIKNUEIS, but in Acts 18:28
> the second sing. is EPIDEIKNUS. There is both a MI form and a W form.

To explain a little more fully, the older -MI verbs were beginning to  
become standardized as -W verbs; the -NUMI verbs did this first and  
were becoming -NUW verbs; another common -MI verb that was changing is  
AFIHMI, for which we see numerous forms in the GNT that are based on  
AFIW conjugation.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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