Contract verbs

Jonathan Robie (jwrobie@mindspring.com)
Fri, 07 Nov 1997 19:58:09 -0500

I'm trying to figure out if there is a good reason WHY verbs in -AW, -EW,
and OW have different endings. Is it just a matter of euphony? In the NT
era, we see only the contracted forms of these endings - were the
uncontracted forms ever used?

Jonathan
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