[B-Greek] LYSAI ~ LYEIN and LOYSAI~LOYEIN
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 09:07:07 EST 2008
>Moreover, the paradigm charts are generally constructed artificially
and likely to be inaccurate in some detail. For instance, most NT
Koine Grammars include a paradigm chart for the verb LUW and include
an aorist middle for this verb -- but there is no aorist middle of
this verb in NT Koine, so where do they get it? From older Greek. >
If you remember a couple of months ago, I almost dropped LYSAI
from the paradigms in Living Koine Greek Part 2a.
LOYSASQAI was so much more natural.
But I went back to LYSAI for a few reasons:
a. I call forms like LELUMENON, and LYETAI 'middles' anyway.
According to form. MESH.
(Even when used in a passive sense! sort of like SE REFLECHIR verbs
in Romance languages)
so we have lots of LYEIN in MESH, just not many AORISTOS MESH.
b. LXX has a middle LYSASQAI. Ex 3:5 has a classic example.
[but for some reason Accordance doesn't bring it up.]
Not to mention Ploutarchos, 1 c.
c. LOYSASQAI has a problem with the passive being rare
and then with the less-common -SQHNAI ending on the passive.
So I stayed with LYSAI as a summary paradigm,
though rearranged the columns to reflect the inherent aspectual system
a little more transparently.
I was sad to do this because LOYSAI LOYEIN is much easier for Americans
to pronounce correctly.
They already say -OY- when they want to refer to -Y-,
in LYSAI LOYEIN
(sorry for using Y = [y],
I am typing so much Greek these days that it is too confusing
to keep switching from the national Greek keyboard Y to b-greek U.
and I have enuf typos already!
In the Greek keyboard "U" is for theta, while Greek keyboard "Y" is upsilon.
The Q doesn't give as much trouble because it interchanges with an
accent in XP, ; in Mac.
W mega gives some trouble because I often write V in b-greek and need
to correct.)
ERRWSO
IWANHS
--
Randall Buth, PhD
www.biblicalulpan.org
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