Trenchards mixed entries - μέμφομαι and μωμάομαι
Posted: February 14th, 2016, 6:47 pm
Let me prefix my question by saying, in his list of words related to μέμφομαι, on page 69 of the 1992 edition, the three types of words that Trenchard lists together are present.
That is to say that within the definition of "cognates", three types of words are lumped together;
In the entry in question:
That is to say that within the definition of "cognates", three types of words are lumped together;
- various parts of speech - where words have basically the same meaning, but one is a noun, another is a verb, adjective, adverb, etc.
- derivational morphology - words have a different meanings from one another due to the addition of elements such as prefixed elements, including vowel gradation, and
- (etymological) cognates - words which at some some point in the language were related to one another, but may not be recognisably related now.
In the entry in question:
- μέμφομαι; ἄμεμπτος, ἀμέμπτως, and ἀμώμητος, ἄμωμος are simply the same word being used in different parts of speech - adjective vs. adverb, and one type of adjective vs. another. Also μέμφομαι, μομφή, and μωμάομαι, μῶμος, are the noun and verb of words of the same or very similar meaning,
- μῶμος and ἄμωμος differ in meaning by the addition of an element, here the alpha-privative, μεμψίμοιρος is a combination of an unrelated word, and
- then there is my question ...