Is there an augment in η before ϝ in ηὗρον?

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  • J. Vara

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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.1993.v61.i1.463

Abstract


This paper defends two ideas: one, that ηὗρον derives from *ἐ-ϝρ-ον, a form with a normal augment in ε and not η, by means of the following process: *ε-ϝρ-ον > ἑ-ϋρ-ον > εὗρον, with a change to ηὗρον by analogy with verbs which began with a vowel; the other, that the form *ϝρ-, which led to the aorist ηὗρον and from this led to the present εὑρίσκω, with the meaning ‘to find, uncover, show’, derives from the same root as *ϝερ-, which means ‘to say’, just as the aorist ἔδειζα, ‘to show’ is from the same root as the Latin dicere, ‘to say’.

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Published

1993-06-30

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Vara, J. (1993). Is there an augment in η before ϝ in ηὗρον?. Emerita, 61(1), 177–179. https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.1993.v61.i1.463

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