[B-Greek] The Latin verb ungues
    Michael Baber 
    illuminatiaries at yahoo.com
       
    Fri Oct 15 19:33:05 EDT 2010
    
    
  
 
English isn't so easy if you actually want to master it. In fact, I've heard English is a very difficult language for non-native speakers to master. Not just learn, but master (although, I hear learning it is also a chore).
 
"He anoints."
 
"He" = third person, masculine gender, singular number (although English verbs don't inflect according to gender, so the masculine gender is irrelevant).
 
Furthermore, they do inflect according to number, but very slightly (third person, singular number is where it occurs compared to the other persons/ numbers).
 
"anoints" = present tense, active voice, and indicative mood 
 
Not "anointed" --- past tense
Not "is anointed" --- passive voice 
Not "Anoint!" --- imperative mood
 
See...it can be just as difficult. In fact, I learned much of my parsing foreign languages by first mastering English. I think that's what snags many native-English speakers who wish to learn foreign languages. They haven't mastered English first.
By the way everyone, I found the answer just after I posted the thread. I remembered dictionary.com often lists the etymology. Unfortunately, I was at work and my Yahoo doesn't like to work properly at work (it gets glitches), so I couldn't respond back to my question. I searched for the word "unction" on dictionary.com and then looked at the etymology. It says "unctio," and then when I went to "unctio" on Perseus, it lists "ungo." =) 
 
Thanks everyone. I appreciate the answers.
      
    
    
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