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In a stunningly successful attempt not to do class-related work, I'm reading Medieval and Modern Greek by Robert Browning (not the poet), which is answering all sorts of questions, such as how close Biblical Greek was to the contemporary spoken version. I have also learned about copulative compounds, which apparently first appear in medieval Greek and feature words such as prasinobenetos (green and blue) and androgunos (man and wife, and presumably the origin of the term.)