An introduction to the comparative grammar of Greek and Latin, by J.E. King and C. Cookson |
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accent accusative adjectives adverbs Aeolic alphabet analogy answers aorist appears aspirate assimilated Attic Attic Greek augment becomes beside clauses compared conjugation consonantal consonants corresponding dative declension denote dental dialects digamma diphthong distinction distinguished Doric dual enclitic ending English Epenthesis Epic express forms future gender genitive grammatical Greek and Latin guttural Homer I-stems imperative indicative Indo Indo-Euro Indo-European language infinitive inflexion instance Ionic labial Labialised lengthening liquid locative long vowel meaning middle mood Mutes nasal neuter nominal non-thematic nouns O-declension optative original language oxytone palatal paroxytone participle passes passive perfect person plur plural predicate present stem pronoun reduplication represented Sanskrit secondary semivowel sense sentence shews sigmatic sigmatic aorist sing singular sometimes sonant sound speech spirant subj subjunctive suffix syllable tense-stems tenses termination thematic vowel tion tive unaccented velar verbs Vocative weak root words دو
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