What is the morphology of ἔνι? (a 3rd person form of ἔνειμι)
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What is the morphology of ἔνι? (a 3rd person form of ἔνειμι)
Is there any identifiable morphology for ἔνι?
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Re: What is the morphology of ἔνι? (a 3rd person form of ἔνε
That was an interesting question. I googled ἔνι and ἔνειμι and a discussion came up in google books from "Man and Woman, One in Christ by Philip Barton Payne: "Although grammarians generally agree on how ἔνι functions and that it is equivalent to ἔνεστι, there are two reasonable explanations of its etymology. Most of the ancient grammarians regarded it as a contracted form of ἔνεστι from the verb ἔνειμι, "to be in." This contracted form occurs frequently in classical, Hellenistic, medieval, and modern Greek. But most recent commentators follow George Benedict Winer's analysis and regard ἔνι to be derived from a poetic form of the preposition ἐν ("in") used in Epic and Attic Greek and in Ionic prose, ἐνί, "strengthened by a more vigorous accent" with the substantive verb "to be" omitted by ellipsis. Analogously, ἔπι (from ἐπί), πάρα (from παρά), ἄνα (from ἀνά) and μέτα (from μετά) were used with the force of ἔπεστι, πάρεστι, ἄνεστι, and μέτεστι. Either explanation of the origin of ἔνι is plausible. Since "to be" is understood elliptically in the second, both explanations result in the same meaning..."
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Re: What is the morphology of ἔνι? (a 3rd person form of ἔνε
LSJ, παρά wrote:F. πάρα (with anastrophe) stands for πάρεστι and πάρεισι, Il.1.174, Hes.Op.454, A.Pers.167, Hdt.1.42, al., S.El.285, Ar.Ach.862, etc.
LSJ, πάρειμι wrote:πάρα used for πάρεστι and πάρεισι, Il. 20.98, 23.479, etc.
LSJ, ἐπί wrote:E. II.. ἔπι, for ἔπεστι, there is, Il.1.515, 3.45, Od.16.315; οὐ γὰρ ἔπ᾽ ἀνήρ . . there is no man . . , 2.58; σοὶ δ᾽ ἔ. μὲν μορφὴ “ἐπέων” 11.367; “ἔ. δέ μοι γέρας” A.Eu.393 codd. (lyr.).
The LSJ (1940) entries for ἀνά/ἄνειμι/ἔπειμι/μέτειμι don't mention this phenomenon.LSJ, μετά wrote:F. μέτα, -μέτεστι, Od.21.93, Parm.9.4, Hdt.1.88,171, S.Ant. 48,etc.
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Re: What is the morphology of ἔνι? (a 3rd person form of ἔνε
What is "K" in this context.LSJ, πέρι wrote:πέρι : (1)=περίεστι, Κ 244, Od. 12.279.
(This usage is not mentioned under περίειμι)
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Re: What is the morphology of ἔνι? (a 3rd person form of ἔνε
That's a rare slipup for LSJ, but uppercase Greek letters refer to books of the Iliad (though LSJ does not use that convention!), and lowercase Greek letters to books of the Odyssey. Κ means book 10 of the Iliad, and Iliad 10.244 does indeed read: οὗ πέρι μὲν πρόφρων κραδίη καὶ θυμὸς ἀγήνωρἑκηβόλος wrote:LSJ, πέρι wrote:
πέρι : (1)=περίεστι, Κ 244, Od. 12.279.
What is "K" in this context.
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Re: What is the morphology of ἔνι? (a 3rd person form of ἔνε
By way of a corrigendum, I mis-referenced the lexicon entry there. That is actually from Georg Autenrieth, A Homeric Dictionary. Apologies especially to opoudjis.opoudjis wrote:That's a rare slipup for LSJ, but uppercase Greek letters refer to books of the Iliad (though LSJ does not use that convention!), and lowercase Greek letters to books of the Odyssey. Κ means book 10 of the Iliad, and Iliad 10.244 does indeed read: οὗ πέρι μὲν πρόφρων κραδίη καὶ θυμὸς ἀγήνωρἑκηβόλος wrote:LSJ, πέρι wrote:
πέρι : (1)=περίεστι, Κ 244, Od. 12.279.
What is "K" in this context.
τί δὲ ἀγαθὸν τῇ πομφόλυγι συνεστώσῃ ἢ κακὸν διαλυθείσῃ;