The history of Greek "*πίφρημι"
After a survey of all the attestations, until Roman times, of the lexeme listed as either -πίφρημι or -φρέω in the reference dictionaries of Ancient Greek, it is argued that the conventional explanation of this verb, which revolves around the aorist of προ-ίημι, needs to be revisited and refined. Co...
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| description | After a survey of all the attestations, until Roman times, of the lexeme listed as either -πίφρημι or -φρέω in the reference dictionaries of Ancient Greek, it is argued that the conventional explanation of this verb, which revolves around the aorist of προ-ίημι, needs to be revisited and refined. Contrary to widespread opinion, forms pointing to a present stem -φρεε/ο- and a sigmatic aorist are not to be dismissed as corrupt, secondary, or later than forms belonging to a κ-aorist. The pivot form of the entire system must have been the 1sg. aorist subjunctive, from where a new ‘stem’ containing the element -φρ-° first spread into the future; two parallel and competing aorist-stem and present-stem formations were then formed on this basis, with developments in both cases following predictable pathways of intraparadigmatic analogy but excluding a single line of descent. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:588854f2-1862-40e2-9b45-30c70ab250bc2022-06-27T16:49:42ZThe history of Greek "*πίφρημι"Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:588854f2-1862-40e2-9b45-30c70ab250bcEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordVandenhoeck & Ruprecht2020Willi, AAfter a survey of all the attestations, until Roman times, of the lexeme listed as either -πίφρημι or -φρέω in the reference dictionaries of Ancient Greek, it is argued that the conventional explanation of this verb, which revolves around the aorist of προ-ίημι, needs to be revisited and refined. Contrary to widespread opinion, forms pointing to a present stem -φρεε/ο- and a sigmatic aorist are not to be dismissed as corrupt, secondary, or later than forms belonging to a κ-aorist. The pivot form of the entire system must have been the 1sg. aorist subjunctive, from where a new ‘stem’ containing the element -φρ-° first spread into the future; two parallel and competing aorist-stem and present-stem formations were then formed on this basis, with developments in both cases following predictable pathways of intraparadigmatic analogy but excluding a single line of descent. |
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