From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 22 1997 - 21:37:53 EST
At 6:12 PM -0600 12/22/97, Ken Penner wrote:
>I'm preparing for Comps in Biblical Languages and am running into some snags;
>if anyone would enjoy sharing their advice, I'd appreciate it.
>
>I'm trying to make sense of EBOULEUSW in Judith 9:6. I see augment on
>the present stem of BOULEUW so I look for secondary endings and a connecting
>vowel. I find neither. Is this an anomaly? If so, where can I find a comment
>on it? (Not LSJ or Conybeare, that I can find.) What might I be missing?
1 aorist 2nd singular indicative middle of BOULEUW, contracted from
E-BOULEU-SA(S)O. The second singular middle secondary ending is -SO, but
the -S- evanesced between A and O and then A and O contracted into W.
This is the single most common parsing problem I find second-year Greek
students making: they'll look at this and say it's really a future 1 sg.
active, then wonder about the apparent augment, then scratch their heads ...
Carl W. Conrad
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