[B-Greek] The Meaning of hAMILLAIS, ATHLIWTEROS and EFH
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri Dec 11 09:05:22 EST 2009
Regarding EFH: this is in fact ordinarily deemed an imperfect, but the form might just as well be designated as an aorist. It is one of those -MI verbs with vowel-gradation of long-A in the sngular and short-A in the plural where the long-A in Attic-Ionic dialect changed to H.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (ret)
On Friday, December 11, 2009, at 08:52AM, "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
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>On Thursday, December 10, 2009, at 09:49PM, "Mohd Faudzee" <ezlitar at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Hi,
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>>I'm faudzee fom Malaysia and taking basic koine Greek. I just want to ask what is the meaning of these words in english:
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>>1. hAMILLAIS
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>This is the dative plural of the noun ἅμιλλα, ης, ἡ (hAMILLA, -HS, hH) meaning "contest" or "competition"
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>>2. ATHLIWTEROS
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>We ordinarily transliterate this as AQLIWTEROS (using Q for "Theta").
>This is the comparative masculine singular nominative of AQLIOS, an adjective meaning "miserable" or "wretched"
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>>3. EFH
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>As George has already indicated, this is the third-person singular aorist active indicate of the verb FHMI (φημί) meaning "say" or "affirm"
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> Carl W. Conrad
>Department of Classics, Washington University (ret)
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