[B-Greek] GUNAIKARIA in 2 Timothy 3:6

Barry H. nebarry at verizon.net
Thu Sep 2 14:05:58 EDT 2010


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From: "John Barach" <johnbarach at shaw.ca>
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>  I think they get "silly women" of GUNAIKARIA from similar words which end 
> in -ARIA.
> MAKARIA -- hapiness
> ILARIA -- hilaria, rejoicing
> FLUARIA - foolishness, nonsense
> Cheers,

I don't think so.  In the examples listed, the -AR is part of the word 
t.    -IO- is an adjectival morpheme which then will have additional markers 
for gender and case following.  See Smyth, #858.

In GUNAIKARION, it is a diminutive, so that the -ario- is actually a 
morpheme indicating "smallness" (and often in a derogatory sense), attached 
to the stem of GUNH, GUNAIK-, with appropriate end marker for case and 
number (since these dimunatives are always neuter, -N for 
nominative/accusative, -A for nom/acc plural, and so forth). See Smyth, #852 
(the example given is PAIDARION, "little child").

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
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