[B-Greek] The Meaning of hAMILLAIS, ATHLIWTEROS and EFH

nebarry at verizon.net nebarry at verizon.net
Fri Dec 11 10:54:52 EST 2009



Original Message:
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From: Carl W. Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:05:22 -0500
To: ezlitar at yahoo.com, b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] The Meaning of hAMILLAIS, ATHLIWTEROS and EFH


>>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.<<

Usage-wise, it functions as a generic past tense, used as either an aorist
or an imperfect as the context demands.  It's like EIMI -- the imperfect is
the normal past tense of the verb.

Barry



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