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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.
Is there an historical sigma involved in ἱημι ?
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It would have accepted ἡ.
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Yes, I believe there is an historical sigma somewhere in the mix. Notice that both BrillDAG and LSJ mention a possible connection to a Latin cognate sēmen (though I don’t get any hits for sēmen in Diogenes).
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Wiktionary is your friend for these etymological inquiries: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%B ... E%BC%CE%B9
Basically, there's no historical sigma, but an historical yod, which also evanesces in similar ways.
Basically, there's no historical sigma, but an historical yod, which also evanesces in similar ways.
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Re: Is there an historical sigma involved in ἱημι ?
Thanks for this. It makes sense. (Of course, just because it makes sense does not make it correct.)Stephen Carlson wrote: ↑May 1st, 2023, 6:34 pm Wiktionary is your friend for these etymological inquiries: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%B ... E%BC%CE%B9
Basically, there's no historical sigma, but an historical yod, which also evanesces in similar ways.
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