From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 13:25:33 EDT
At 1:18 PM -0400 4/12/02, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>At 12:17 PM -0400 4/12/02, Richard Ghilardi wrote:
>>Dear B-greekers,
>>
>>Carl Conrad wrote:
>>
>><< LSJ has two different verbs, both of which would produce the imperfect
>>middle 3d sg. HLATTONOUTO (since E + O and O + O both contract to -OU-).
>>>>
>>
>>While Carl is perfectly correct that both E+O and O+O contract to OU,
>>these are not the pair of contracting vowels found in the verbs in
>>question.
>>
>>For ELATTONEW: impf mid 3d sg (HLATTONEETO) --> HLATTONEITO
>>
>>For ELATTONOW: impf mid 3d sg (HLATTONOETO) --> HLATTONOUTO
>>
>>Thus the contracting pairs are: E+E and O+E.
>>
>>Carl was thinking of the 3d pl. where the contracting pairs are as he
>>states them above.
>
>Right; I read HLATTONOUNTO in the header as if it had been HLOTTONOUTO,
>even missing the erroneous O for A in the header.
Er ... make that "HLOTTONOUTO as if it had been HLATTONOUNTO." Even a month
after the thread was current, I still can't get it right!
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