Re: EKAQEUDEN: Is Perseus wrong?  Carl W. Conrad ( Sat, 11 Jan
1997 17:31:08 -0600  This has been worked over by several
people; rather than cite the entire correspondence history, I'd
like to work with Jonathan's original because I think there was
a fundamental misunderstanding of the Perseus (or rather of the
LSJ) enry on EKAQEUDEN.  At 1:06 PM -0600 1/11/97, Jonathan
Robie wrote: >Perseus morphological parser, and Perseus told me
this: > ekatheuden, imperf ind act 3rd sg, nu_movable
root_preverb >this was made up of two words: > Preverb: KATA >
Dictionary entry: KAQEUDW >balled his eyes out (snorting like a
horse). >Perseus? Does anybody know how it works?  The first
problem was the confusion of "nu_movable root_preverb" as a
single notion; they are two distinctive features in this
parsing. As David Moore noted, the "nu_movable" is what appears
at the end of the 3rd sg. E- ending for euphony. What is meant
by "root_preverb," however, is that the compounding of KAQEUDO
from KAT(A) + hEUDW is so early that K