On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:37:53 -0400 "Carl W. Conrad" 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 --- B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [jwrobie@mindspring.com] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu