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Headword: *kerda/nh|
Adler number: kappa,1385
Translated headword: should gain, would gain
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Used] with an accusative. Aorist subjunctive. But kerdanei= ["he/she/it will gain"] [sc. is also attested].
Greek Original:
*kerda/nh|: ai)tiatikh=|. au)qupo/takton. *kerdanei= de/.
Notes:
One of the many Suda entries which differentiate between two verb forms with very similar spelling. In the present instance they are probably both extracted from Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus 72 and Oedipus Tyrannus 889, respectively.
The entry also illustrates that kerdai/nw in Attic, being a liquid verb, takes an apparently non-sigmatic aorist and future (kerdan-). Later Greek used the sigmatic stem kerdhs- instead, which presumably is why kappa 1384 was introduced as a gloss.
Properly the adjective au)qupo/taktos refers to the second aorist, but it can also refer to the first aorist, especially in the case of liquid verbs (LSJ s.v.); e.g. delta 655, pi 1031.
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; tragedy
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 2 November 2008@00:11:34.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (tweaks, status) on 2 November 2008@01:58:13.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords; cosmetics) on 2 November 2008@04:41:48.
David Whitehead (modified note, at the translator's wish) on 2 November 2008@05:29:49.
David Whitehead on 18 February 2013@08:27:07.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 5 August 2019@00:55:48.

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