From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 01 2001 - 20:06:36 EST
At 12:25 AM +0000 1/2/01, Mark Wilson wrote:
>The second Aorist of TRECW is EDRAMON (fut. is DRAMOUMAI).
>
>I came across this in a commentary and the author
>made no mention of this strange change.
>
>Is EDRAMON from an entirely different root?
>(Kind of like: go, went, gone)
Yes, very much like "go/went/gone"; the roots of TRECW are TREC/TROC AND
DREM/DROM/DRAM. And there are others like this as well, with different
roots for different systems: "speak": LEG/LOG in the present tense fEP
(EIPON) in the aorist, fER in the perfect (also in the future), "see" fORA
and fEID in the present tense, fID in the aorist (EfIDON-->EIDON), fOID and
fEID in the perfect, also OP in the future and in the perfect, just to name
a couple. I think it was the French scholar Meillet who hypothesized that
in proto-Greek each tense/aspect system (imperfective, perfective, stative)
had its own root for a particular idea like "speak" or "see" or "run"--but
that in the historical language new stems quickly formed from the other
roots.
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