Resumen de Homeric ἐγρήγορθε, ἐγρήγορθαι, ἐγρηγόρθᾱσι, ἐγρήσσω and ἐγρηγορόων
The Homeric forms of the verb ἐγρήγορα ‘am awake’ exhibit a number of oddities. Though this verb was an active-intransitive perfecto-present in the earliest period, the Iliad presents us with the unexpected medial forms ἐγρήγορθε and ἐγρήγορθαι beside the likewise remarkable active ἐγρηγόρθᾱσι with intrusive -θ-. Homer also knows a present ἐγρήσσω, the root of which can only have originated in the perfect but the morphology of which is difficult to account for. I explain the first ρ of ἐγρήγορα as resulting from a metathesis of the weak stem *egēgr→ *egrēg-and derive ἐγρήσσω from this modified weak stem. The medial forms are explained as contextually motivated nonce formations. The paper concludes with a discussion of the Odyssean participle ἐγρηγορόων ‘awake’, which I derive from an adjective *egrēgor-wó-‘awake’ that can be compared with YAv. jaγāur-u-‘awake’ and Vedic jā́gṛ-v[i]-‘id.’*
