On 28/12/08 11:40, Ben Schmidt wrote:
[...]
> What is your source for this, Tony? I can find no reference to any
> earlier or alternative spelling in the Koine Greek lexicon
[...]
It's the kind of stuff that percolated into my mind over a lifetime of
being interested in everything. I had two years of Classical Greek in
high school before I switched from Latin-Greek to Latin-Math, and
already in Lucian (a writer of the Hellenistic period IIRC) there were
words spelled with eta replaced by iota. Don't ask me which, but that's
where the Greek teacher paused to draw our attention on the iotacism of
the Koinê and of subsequent times.
Rather than a Koine Greek lexicon (which might already refer to a state
of the language posterior to the vowel shift), take a Classical (Attic)
Greek dictionary, and look in the Greek part for "khrêstos" the way I
spelt it in my previous post, or maybe for a verb which would have that
as a passive perfect participle (khraô or something maybe?); or in the
English part for the adjective "anointed" or the verb "to anoint".
Best regards,
Tony.
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