Re: Potential Aorist-Perfect Confusion

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:

> > In Epic Greek, how do you tell a contracted perfect from a
> > contracted reduplicated aorist?
>
> I'm not certain why you refer to "contracted" perfects and

aorists. If you

> mean the contract stems, they show different endings, since they

are by

> definition vowel stems within Greek.
> Reduplicated aorists and reduplicated perfects show different forms

of the

> root:
> pepithon vs pepoitha / pepeika "persuade"
> pephradon vs pephraka "tell"
> kekamw (subj) vs kekme:ka "labour"
> etc.

It looks as though I was fundamentally wrong about Greek. For some
reason (perhaps seeing only 3s forms?) it hadn't registered that
reduplicated aorists were 2nd aorists, i.e. had imperfect endings.

By 'contracted' I meant with no root vowel. An aorist example is _(e)
kekleto_ 'he urged', from _kelomai_ 'urge', though the perfect and
aorist middles are quite distinct.

Richard.