The Negative Compounds in Greek (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899. Excerpt: ... thus Froehde, Bezz. Beitr. xx, p. 213, assumes a//aeSro? to be for av ] aeSvos. Now we have in Homer the simple word in two forms, eSva, eeSva, and Hesychius glosses deSvov by afapvov rj Trovfepvov. If the ancient lexicographer really understood the word, the second d in avdeSvos was either negative or intensive. The suggestion of Wharton, Trans. Philol. Soc., 1891-4, p. 331, that av-in these words = n-and is intensive, so that dvaeSvos o means 'quite dowerless, ' would presuppose a double prefix here n-n-. of which the first part would be intensive and the o o / L other negative. The view of Pott, E. F.2, i, p. 389, that we have in dvdeSvos a doubling of the negative prefix seems more probable. Cf. Sva-dppopos, Il. XXIi, 428, where the scholiast remarks, Sva-dfj, fj, opo$, SeSnraTia.Ke Trpo? rrjv eTriTaa-iv To ydp Sucr /cal a Tavrov Srjova-iv; also Et. Mag. sub voc., Sva-dpfAopo;, &? f7Xt/ce?, 6fj, ijiKes, /cal a-vvofj, rjiKes. Cf. Skr. dur-a-dabhna, anaviprayukta (explained by na viprayukta), and the more doubtful anavadya, and see Whitney, Gram. 1121, b. We may add that a confusion of dveeSvos and aeS1/o? ( dFeSvos) both negative compounds, may have led to a sort of blend in dvdeSvos. Froehde, 1. c., would connect dvd-rrveva-Tcx; with dvairveco, being shortened by ' haplology' from dv-avdirveva-ros, as aTroiva from diro-Troiva; then again dvdyvcoa-TOs by analogy. But it is in favor of the assumption of a doubling of the negative prefix that &yvoa-TOs and aTrveva-TOs are words in good standing in the literature. III. FOKM AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE COMPOUNDS. The great productiveness of these negative formations and the inseparable character of the first part might raise the question whether these words are really to be considered as true compounds...