Κερδάνῃ
should gain, would gain
Translated by Nick Nicholas2 Nov 2008Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Used] with an accusative. Aorist subjunctive. But kerdanei= ["he/she/it will gain"] [sc. is also attested].
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κερδάνῃ· αἰτιατικῇ. αὐθυπότακτον. Κερδανεῖ δέ.
Betacode
*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 thatkerdai/nw in Attic, being a liquid verb, takes an apparently non-sigmatic aorist and future (kerdan -). Later Greek used the sigmatic stemkerdhs- instead, which presumably is why kappa 1384 was introduced as a gloss.
Properly the adjectiveau)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.