[Mesorah] Eisevei and Meisevei

[Joshua Meisner]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Michael Kopinsky <mkopinsky at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:12 AM, SBA <areivim at sba2.com> wrote:
>
>> A friend wants to know,
>> what is the difference between 'eisevei' and meisevei'?
>
>
> Is it just that eisevei means "it was asked" and meisevei means "he asked?"
> IIRC, Meisevei is often (though not always) followed by the name of an amora
> (meisevei abaye l'rava), but I don't think eisevei is.
>

To start with, eisiveih is a singular verb that carries a direct object
while meisivei is a plural verb that does not, but my Aramaic dikduk is too
weak to determine their exact tenses.  If someone has R' Yitzchak Frank's
_Grammar for Gemara_, I'm sure that they could extrapolate the answer.

- Josh
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