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Aorist Present--what does this mean? I thought aorist was primarily reserved for past action
“Aorist presents” is a term used by many (but not all) Indo-Europeanists to describe verb forms for the present tense with zero-grade ablaut (like the strong aorist). A classic example is Sanskrit ...
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Origin of *-k- "extension" in (aorist of) some IE verbs?
Andreas Willi in his book Origins of the Greek Verb (2018) from the Cambridge University Press argue that the k-aorist functions synchronically in Greek as a transitive marker, but that in Proto-Indo-...
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Aorist forms in Rigveda
In many Indo-European languages, including both Sanskrit and Ancient Greek, verbs are marked for both tense (when the action happened) and aspect (how the action relates to that time). This is the ...
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Aorist forms in Rigveda
In Sanskrit, as in Greek, the aorist is used for past action only in the indicative mood. In the other moods (subjunctive, optative, imperative etc.) the present refers to continuous action and the ...
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Aorist Present--what does this mean? I thought aorist was primarily reserved for past action
I once heard that some verbs typically called "aorist presents" in Germanic are actually the result of e > u vowel coloring by surrounding velar and labial consonants.
For example, the Germanic "come"...
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Is there a difference between a preterite and an aorist?
What distinguishes the Greek aorist tense from other past tenses is its denoting uninterrupted/non-continuing action: it is punctiliar, though the action in point of time can be lengthy, such as 'they ...
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