[B-Greek] FAINW in the subjunctive

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 24 05:37:16 EST 2008


My apologies to those whose e-mail clients don't seem to support UTF-8 for forgetting to transliterate the Greek.  I am reposting it to include a transliteration.


For the aor pass subj of FAINW see Iliad 19.375

ὡς δ' ὅτ' ἂν ἐκ πόντοιο σέλας
 ναύτῃσι φανήῃ  375
καιομένοιο πυρός, τό τε καίεται
 ὑψόθ' ὄρεσφι
σταθμῷ ἐν οἰοπόλῳ: 
 
hWS D' hOT'  AN EK PONTOIO SELAS NAUTHiSI FANHHi    375
KAIOMENOIO PUROS, TO TE KAIETAI hUYOQ' ORESFI 
STAQMWi EN OIOPOLWi
 
george
gfsomsel 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Stephen Baldwin <stbaldwi at hotmail.com>
To: B- Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:19:29 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] FAINW in the subjunctive



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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