[b-greek] Re: Jn 20:9, DEI AUTON EK NEKRWN ANASTHNAI

From: dixonps@juno.com
Date: Mon Apr 16 2001 - 10:07:38 EDT


On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:37:53 -0400 "Carl W. Conrad"
<cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu> writes:

snip>

> Yes, and the only point of my previous post was to object
> to your assertion that ANA- in this verb functioned in the
> same manner as EPI- and that the semantic sense of
> ANA wasn't really playing a role in ANISTHMI/ANISTAMAI.

Thanks for picking up on this. Perhaps I was wondering out loud too
assertively and/or too vaguely. Let me retract and try again. The EPI-
prefix in EPIGINWSKW can be intensive, but not necessarily so. It can
also be almost superfluous, rendering it virtually synonymous with
GINWSKW. Agreed? If so, is the same phenomenon possible with ANISTHMI?
Modern translations of Jn 20:9, for example, give that impression.

Are there other examples of prefixes being superfluous (at least for
meaning) in the Greek language?

Paul Dixon

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