[B-Greek] Consonant stem ending + NTAI

Ken Penner pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Wed Sep 17 10:48:55 EDT 2003


Smyth (465f) says -NTAI became -ATAI (the N in an unpronounceable string of
consonants becomes sonant: A), and the -ATAI and -ATO forms were retained in
prose until about 400 BCE.

Ken Penner, Ph.D. (cand.), McMaster
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> What I'm not following is why the Greeks didn't come
> up with a form for this occasion, or did they?




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