Κέρσει
will crop
Translated by Nick Nicholas8 Nov 2008Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] will cut.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κέρσει· κόψει.
Betacode
*ke/rsei: ko/yei.
Notes
- The future of
kei/rw --ke/rsw -- is unattested, but was made up by grammarians, as an "Aeolic" form, to explain the aoriste)/kersa ; see e.g. Choeroboscus, Prolegomena et scholia in Theodosii Alexandrini canones isagogicos de flexione verborum p. 72. The actual future iskere/w (epic/Ionic),kerw= (Attic).
Though the form is given here in the third person singular, it has not necessarily been quoted from anywhere in that form; it might simply be used to match the Homeric aorist Choeroboscus himself was deriving (Iliad 10.456:a)pe/kerse ).