[B-Greek] DEIKNUMI: 2S endings variation

Carlton Winbery winberycl at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 31 23:07:01 EDT 2008


>Ladies and Gentlemen:
>A quick-and-easy question if I may, in the interests of exactness:
>1. I note from Smyth s418 that 2S-P-A-I of DEIKNUMI is DEIKNUS.
>2. Mounce BBG p364 listing his athematic paradigms, has the same 
>being DEIKNUEIS
>3. Mounce MBG p308 v-3c(2) notes also that athematic DEIKNUMI has a 
>thematic variation, DEIKNUW.
>
>Is it reasonable to assume that for the athematic conjugation, Smyth 
>is correct and that Mounce has, in the instance of 2S-P-A-I, 
>introduced the thematic form in his athematic conjugation?
>
>Rgds
>Stephen Baldwin
>stbaldwi at hotmail.com
>
Steve,

In John 2:18 the second sing. form is DEIKNUEIS, but in Acts 18:28 
the second sing. is EPIDEIKNUS. There is both a MI form and a W form.

Carlton Winbery

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