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> Another source worth consulting is Andrew Sihler, _New Comparative
>Grammar of Greek and Latin_. I'm not absolutely sure I remember what he
>said, but I think it was thus: the -OS declension originally DID include
>both masculine and feminine nouns (e.g. hH hODOS, hH NHSOS, hH NOSOS, and
>lots of tree and plant names in -OS, all of them feminine), and when these
>were used as adjectives, the one -OS form sufficed for both m. and f.
>
>Carl W. Conrad
Thanks Carl. I will have to find a copy of this.
Jim
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Jim West, ThD
Adjunct Professor of Bible
Quartz Hill School of Theology
jwest@highland.net
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