[B-Greek] Question about the 1st person plural form of *PERIPATE in present active indicative
Matthew Blair
mpblair at gmail.com
Sat Mar 1 11:07:44 EST 2008
Hi all,
For the verbal root PERIPATE, how is the 1st person plural formed in the
present active indicative?
My answer would be this: the epsilon at the end of the root, along with the
connecting vowel (omicron) should contract to form OU. Then add the
personal ending (-MEN) to arrive at PERIPATOUMEN. This answer seems to be
consistent with the presentation in Mounce's BBG.
However, I notice that 1 John 1:6 has the form as PERIPATWMEN.
The best I can come up with for this discrepancy is that possibly the verbal
root has a consonontal iota added to form the present tense stem, and so the
omicron-iota combination would contract to an omega, and then the epsilon on
the root would contract into the omega. But this is pure speculation on my
part.
Thanks for your help,
Matthew
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