From: Sylvia Schmitz (Sylvia.Schmitz@t-online.de)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2001 - 05:27:16 EST
Stephen C. Carlson schrieb:
> At 07:58 AM 1/1/01 -0600, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> >They are identical in spelling and pronunciation; only the context will
> >clearly distinguish their usage. Originally, to be sure, they were
> >different, but loss of weak consonants (digamma in the case of OIDA, sigma
> >in the case of EIMI) has led to their identity of form and pronunciation:
> >(note that here W represents Digamma, normally represented by F)
> >
> >OIDA: WI-DQI --> WIS-QI --> ISQI (D of root WID assimilated to Q)
> >EIMI: SIS-QI --> IS-QI --> ISQI (root of EIMI alternated btw/ SE and ES;
> >what's probably happened in this instance is vocalic assimilation between
> >the E and the I of QI; and of course you can tell that this is mere
> >guesswork, very possibly wrong).
>
> Sihler, NEW COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR OF GREEK AND LATIN (New York: Oxford,
> 1995), § 496.2 (p. 553) writes: "G I)/SQI is an enigma. . . .
> The undisturbed outcome should have been G *E)/SQI. The question of
> how attested I)/SQI arose has no answer, but even so that is an
> easier question than WHY *E)/SQI would have been vulnerable to
> replacement at all."
>
> So it's a mystery why the EIMI form is ISQI and not ESQI.
>
> Stephen Carlson
> --
> Stephen C. Carlson mailto:scarlson@mindspring.com
> Synoptic Problem Home Page http://www.mindspring.com/~scarlson/synopt/
Thank you for this reply. While studying the New Testament Greek so far, I
didnot consider the fact, that the same principles hold true, that I have
learned a few years ago, while I was doing my studies as a graduate translator
for Italian. At that time I had the opportunity to write a thesis on the topic
"Research on the Italian Bible Translation". Besides one of my Professors held
lectures about the development of the language from Latin (Vulgar Latin) to
Italian. In every language there are mysteries.
Sylvia Schmitz
Sylvia.Schmitz@t-online.de
Mainz, Germany
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