[B-Greek] Warning Stone Acts 21:28
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat Mar 22 05:48:57 EDT 2008
This is not a matter of substitution at all, but an alternative word
formed not from MHD(E) + hEIS/MIA/hEN but from MHT(E) + hEIS/MIA/hEN
-- with the T aspirated because of the rough-breathing of the hEIS. It
is found once only in the GNT: Acts 27:33
τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτην σήμερον ἡμέραν
προσδοκῶντες ἄσιτοι διατελεῖτε
μηθὲν προσλαβόμενοι. [TESSARAKAIDEKATHN SHMERON
hHMERAN PROSDOKWNTAS ASITOI DITELEITE MHQEN PROSLABOMENOI.] The form
OUQEIS for OUDEIS is more frequent in the GNT: Luke 22:35, 23:14,
Acts 15:9, 19:27, 26:26, 1Cor. 13:2, 2Cor. 11:9. One encounters these
forms OUQEIS and MHQEIS more in inscriptions than in literary texts,
but Aristotle uses them regularly.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
On Mar 21, 2008, at 10:23 PM, Barry wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Barton" <phos at windstream.net>
> To: <B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 9:58 PM
> Subject: [B-Greek] Warning Stone Acts 21:28
>
>
>> I'm wondering what would motivate people to make a D -> Q
>> substitution as
>> these two examples illustrate. Is MHQEN easier to say than MHDEN?<<
>
> You heard about the new student who was learning English as a second
> language. He learned the word "enough" in class. The next day he
> proudly
> informed his teacher that he had studied ahead and learned "thruff"
> (through) and "thuff" (though).
>
> So which is easier to say, "enough" or "through?" What "motivates"
> different pronunciation but the retention of an identical spelling?
> Why did
> English go through "the great vowel shift?" Linguistic change
> occurs, for
> which reason nobody really knows, though linguistics textbooks have
> all
> sorts of theories, and "ease of pronunciation" is almost certainly
> not the
> reason (though loan words are usually pronounced according to the
> phonological demands of the receptor language, but not always
> consistently).
>
> N.E. Barry Hofstetter
> Professor, WRTS
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