[B-Greek] Etymology

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 28 13:06:20 EDT 2009


Yes, and THS EPAGGELIAS is a syniactical genitive, used after
syniasticalized nouns.  
 
Mark L
Φωσφορος

--- On Sun, 6/28/09, George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Etymology
To: "Carl Conrad" <cwconrad2 at mac.com>, "Bill Shea" <bshea at ksu.edu>
Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009, 10:36 AM



εἶναι τὰ ἔθνη συγκληρονόμα καὶ σύσσωμα καὶ συμμέτοχα τῆς ἐπαγγελίας ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ διὰ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, 
EINAI TA EQNH SUGKLHRONOMA KAI SUSSWMA KAI SUMMETOXA THS EPAGGELIAS EN XRISTWi IHSOU DIA TOU EUAGGELIOU

The SU prefix of which you speak is simply the combination of the word with the preposition σύν.  We see several in instances in this passage:  συγκληρονόμα SUGKLHRONOMA, σύσσωμα SUSSWMA and συμμέτοχα SUMMETOXA.  It takes slightly different forms depending upon what the first letter of the word with which it is combined happens to be.  

 george
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From: Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
To: Bill Shea <bshea at ksu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Etymology

On Jun 28, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Bill Shea wrote:

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From: Bill Shea <bshea at ksu.edu>
Date: June 28, 2009 10:00:22 AM EDT
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Subject: Etymology

I am interested in the etymology of the Greek prefix SU, particularly  
as it relates to Ephesians 3:6.

Bill Shea

P.S. This is my first posting to the list. I just found it today.
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The text in question:
Eph. 3:6 εἶναι τὰ ἔθνη συγκληρονόμα καὶ  
σύσσωμα καὶ συμμέτοχα τῆς  
ἐπαγγελίας ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ διὰ τοῦ  
εὐαγγελίου,
[EINAI TA EQNH SUGKLHRONOMA KAI SUSSWMA KAI SUMMETOCA THS EPAGGELIAS  
EN CRISTWi IHSOU DIA TOU EUAGGELIOU.[

The prefix appearing in the three adjectives here, SUGKLHRONOMA,  
SUSSWMA, and SUMMETOCA, is actually not SU- but rather SUN, identical  
with the preposition SUN, ordinarily Englished as "with" or "together  
with" or "in company with." The -N- of SUN- as prefix regularly  
assimilates to a following consonant.

I don't know that there's really anything particularly useful to say  
about the etymology of SUN-; in older Ionic and Attic dialects one  
finds it as XUN (ξυν)with a cognate adjective XUNOS  [ξυνός,  
ή, όν ] that is synonymous with KOINOS [κοινός, -η, -ον] in  
sense.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)



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