[B-Greek] EPLHSAN (Luke 5.7)
Sarah Madden
sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 06:56:22 EST 2008
Thanks, Carl, for expanding my understanding about nasal additives. I was
tutoring some grad students this week (2nd semester Greek grammar) in simple
aorist formations and did not have a quick answer when they asked why
LAMBANW's root is "LAB" and not "LAMB" -- now I can explain things a little
better to them.
Sarah
Maryland
sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
On Feb 8, 2008 7:32 PM, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
>
> 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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