[B-Greek] FAINW in the subjunctive
Stephen Baldwin
stbaldwi at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 23 22:19:29 EST 2008
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Just when you thought it was safe...
I was wondering whether someone might be able to assist with a trivial morphing question.
Matt6:5 the hypocrites stand where they do so they might be seen by men. The word is FANWSIN preceded by hOPWS. Obviously a 3P-Subj.
And I got to wonder ['cos I wonder about such oddities] -- Is the only difference between 3P-A-A-Subj and 3P-A-P-Subj the accent?
I note that the [liquid] aorist active stem is EFANA and the aorist passive stem is EFANH[N] [Mounce MBG] meaning that in the subjunctive they would use the same stem. Smythe curiously lists the A-A-Ind as EFHNA [ss402, the only reference I could find to this form] and so his 3P-A-A-Subj is FHNWSI and 3P-A-P-Subj is FANWSI so they are obviously dissimilar.
Carson [Greek Accents] notes that W verbs in the subjunctive exhibit recessive accenting except for aorist passive [VR13].
I have searched in vain for a definitive answer to this. So, is the 3P-A-A-Subj different from the 3P-A-P-Subj only in that the former has an acute on the A and the latter has a circumflex on the W?
Trust this makes sense and I have not missed anything obvious...
Rgds
Steve Baldwin
stbaldwi at hotmail.com
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