[B-Greek] off list response for basic ANHR/ANDROS paradigm

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Mar 24 10:45:07 EST 2003


At 9:45 AM -0500 3/24/03, Richard Ghilardi wrote:
>James,
>
>I would simply add this to Carl's very thorough response:
>
>Voc. sing. A/NER        pl. A/NDRES
>
>Apparently the older stem ANER was retained for the vocative.

Yes, it was; here and in many 3d-declension nouns the ending-less stem of
the noun is used for a vocative singular while the nominative plural
supplies the vocative plural.
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Carl W. Conrad
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