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study of Hjalmar Frisk on the same subject. The only new information that Chantraine
adds is that the uncontracted form—zw&w—is found not only in epic, but in lyric poetry
as well. 338 Hardy Hansen and Gerald Quinn, in their book on Attic Greek prose, agree
with the above scholars on the translation of zw~ as “to live,” but maintain that it drives
from the uncontracted ancestral form, za&w. 339 This information, when combined with
their introductory statement that their study focuses on the “dialect of Athens, as it
appears in prose authors of the fifth and fourth centuries,” implies that za&w is a
grammatical form used before or in the Classical period. 340 Turning to Liddell and Scott,
however, one finds that the uncontracted form za&w is attested only in the language of the
grammarians (e.g., Etymologicum Magnum 410.38). 341 More specifically, Émile Boisacq
states that za&w is an invention of the grammarians. 342 Finally, Carl Buck specifies that
the Attic verb zw~ is by itself an exceptional type of contracted verbs. As such, it does not
fall into any of the usual types of these verbs, meaning those whose uncontracted forms
end in -αω, -εω, -οω, but it comes from the uncontracted form, zh&w. In tracing the
etymology of the verb zh&w, Buck indicates that it means “to live,” and as it is unattested
in the extant sources, it is therefore a reconstructed form. It derives from the equally
unattested, but reconstructed zh&-iw, which Buck considers parallel to Homer’s
zw&w; the latter deriving from the unattested and therefore reconstructed zw&-iw. 343 In
agreement with his deriving zw~ from zh&w, are also Michael Oikonomou and Anastasios
338
H. Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (Heidelberg, 1954) 618, s.v. zw&i+on, zw|~on, v. zw&w.
339
Hansen and Quinn, Greek 594-595.
340
Hansen and Quinn, Greek 1.
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LSJ , 758, s.v. zw~.
342
E. Boisacq, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (Heidelberg and Paris, 1923) 309.
343
C. D. Buck, Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (Chicago, 1933) 265, n. 3.
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