From: Carlton Winbery (winberyc@popalex1.linknet.net)
Date: Tue Jul 07 1998 - 14:51:12 EDT
Ward Powers wrote;
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>The most common pattern that is found (it is followed by seven verbs) is
>this: "Take the aorist root (the second aorist form, minus augment and
>ending) and add "N" before the last consonant and "AN" after it." Thus from
>aorist ELAQON one gets LANQANW, from EMAQON, MANQANW, and from EPUQOMHN,
>PUNQANOMAI. The assimilation rule also applies, where relevant. This rule
>states, in relation to nasal liquid consonants, "Wherever a nasal liquid
>consonant is followed by a morph commencing with a consonant of a different
>place of articulation, the nasal changes its place of articulation to
>correspond with that of the consonant which follows it." Thus ELABON gives
>initially LANBANW, and then in accordance with this assimilation rule the
>"N", which is the dental nasal liquid, changes to "M", which is the labial
>nasal liquid, because the following phoneme, "B", is a labial. This gives
>us LAMBANW. Similarly in front of a palatal consonant, the inserted nu will
>change to the palatal nasal consonant "G" (enga, pronounced "-ng-", not to
>be confused with gamma). Thus: EQIGON, QIGGANW; ELACON, LAGCANW; ETUCON,
>TUGCANW. That lists the seven verbs of this category.
>
I would agree with most of what Ward says here. I would add to his list of
seven five other verbs, AISQANOMAI, HiSQOMHN; hUPOLIMPANW; OPTANOMAI,
hAMARTANW, which has both hHMARTON & hHMARTHSA. Another verb that may be
included is BLASTANW, EBLASTHSA (the only one taking a first aorist, but
there may be an alternate stem, BLASTAW). I certainly agree that most of
these verbs take second aorists.
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I agree with Wards treatment of second aorist in his book mentioned in his
post.
Carlton L. Winbery
Fogleman Professor of Religion
Louisiana College
Pineville, LA 71359
winberyc@popalex1.linknet.net
winbery@andria.lacollege.edu
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