Is there an historical sigma involved in ἱημι ?
Posted: April 26th, 2023, 5:24 pm
bwpowers@eagles.bbs.net.au
Greetings Wade & others on this forum. I just read Wade's comments on iBiblio on the Aorist tense, and I thought they were good. I recall years ago suffering with Machen's introductory grammar in Bible college, then later discovering Goetchius' Language of the NT which took a morphological (or morphical if you wish) to Greek, which was a quantum improvement. It looks like Wade may have taken Goetchius to a higher level. Is there any Greek textbook currently in print which has Wade's super linguistic approach?
BTW, it is a great insight (IMHO) to consider ἱημι (from which ἀφίημι, a veritable mess
in paradigms) as exhibiting reduplication with iota, a sign of the present stem (thus a great aid on parsing its forms as probably present or imperfect). Does anyone have any explanation of this reduplication, which lacks a visible consonant in the reduplication? We explain histēmi as sigma changing to rough breathing (though it does not do so in σῴζω. Is there an historical sigma involved in ἱημι ?
Thanks for your response. Gumboocho
PS This forum rejected my Captcha answer as to what was the feminine article (for a feminine noun) when I used for an answer hē, but accepted he.
Greetings Wade & others on this forum. I just read Wade's comments on iBiblio on the Aorist tense, and I thought they were good. I recall years ago suffering with Machen's introductory grammar in Bible college, then later discovering Goetchius' Language of the NT which took a morphological (or morphical if you wish) to Greek, which was a quantum improvement. It looks like Wade may have taken Goetchius to a higher level. Is there any Greek textbook currently in print which has Wade's super linguistic approach?
BTW, it is a great insight (IMHO) to consider ἱημι (from which ἀφίημι, a veritable mess

Thanks for your response. Gumboocho
PS This forum rejected my Captcha answer as to what was the feminine article (for a feminine noun) when I used for an answer hē, but accepted he.