German ge- ptcpl cognates?

petegray petegray at btinternet.com
Mon Jan 31 15:42:43 UTC 2000


Ed suggested:

>In Greek only the sigmatic aorist has an augment (grapho - igrapsa), not the
>asigmatic one

Untrue, I'm afraid.    Both equally have an augment, in identical
situations, as far back as we can go in Greek.   The failure of the augment
to survive into Modern Greek in some words is a totally different kettle of
bananas.

Examples of athematic aorists with augment are:
  ebalon, elipon, ebe:n, egno:n, eidon, ephagon, and hundreds of others.

Peter



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