[B-Greek] words often mistaken for other words
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat Nov 17 07:12:54 EST 2007
On Nov 17, 2007, at 6:17 AM, Mitch Larramore wrote:
> To all
>
> I would like to make a list of words that are
>
> 1) most easily mistaken for another word (for example, EIS and
> hEIS, or O TI and hOTI)
It's probably worth getting that last one showing with breathings and
accents:
hO/ TI (ὅ τι) ανδ hOTI (ὅτι)
Well, there's hEN, the neuter of hEIS, which is readily confused with
the preposition EN.
hAUTH (fem. sg. of hOUTOS), could be mistaken for AUTH (fem. sg. of
AUTOS) -- and of course AUTOS in its different incarnations with the
article is to be distinguished (hOUTOS hO ANHR, hO AUTOS ANHR).
> 2) spelled the same or close to another word but are different words/
> roots
Well, from this morning's list correspondence, there are:
EI)MI/ (εἰμί) "be" and EI)=MI (εἶμι) "go"
Some might confound hI/HMI / hIEMAI (usually compounded with prefixes)
with hIAMAI () "heal."
> I want to make a list of words that I can begin to learn their
> differences when put side by side. Please send any set of words that
> you feel meet this criteria.
Or even "these criteria." My sister-in-law once said that she wasn't
"Les Misérables" although she felt like it, because she wasn't yet
plural.
This is a worthy objective and surely one that many heads can
contribute to, as I doubt that anyone can bring them all readily to
mind (my "senior moments" are getting longer and more frequent,
certainly).
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at ioa.com or cwconrad2 at mac.com
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