[B-Greek] EPLHSAN (Luke 5.7)

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri Feb 8 19:32:51 EST 2008


On Feb 8, 2008, at 7:00 PM, Sarah Madden wrote:

> Mitch,
> My quick guess is that the double "P" is a reduplication, typical of  
> MI
> verbs (cf. DIDWMI), but the reduplication drops off for the aorist.

That's precisely right; and the M is a nasal additive that is common  
in present-tense stem formation as in TUGCANW (root TUC) LAMBANW (root  
LAB), LIMPANW (root LIP, an alternative present tense to LEIPW).

> On 2/8/08, Mitch Larramore <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> How does the Present Active PIMPLHMI change to EPLHSAN
>> in the Aorist Active? The PLH- is obviously common,
>> but what happens to the initial PIM-?

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






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