[B-Greek] 1st declension/ vowel length and accents
TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com
TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com
Sun Oct 2 07:32:20 EDT 2005
These are some notes I took after reading a PILE of textbooks and webpages
on 1st declension. Can someone please tell me if this is right? Or if I need
to know anything else? We often need to know if an alpha is long or short,
if we are to accent a
word correctly, right?
Kat Doe
Homemaker
There are 4 subdeclensions of 1st declension nouns:
long alpha
short alpha
eta
masculine
long alpha usually comes after rho, iota, or epsilon. All alphas are long in
the
long alpha subdeclension.
Eta usually comes after consonants other than rho. All the etas and alphas
are long
in the eta subdeclension.
Short alpha can come after any stem, and is rarer than long alpha and eta.
After consonants other than rho, short alpha turns to an eta in the genitive
and dative singular .After rho, iota, and epsilon, short alpha becomes a long
alpha in everything other than Nom. sg., Acc. sg., and Voc. sg.
masc 1st declension is declined like the eta subdeclension, except for: hs
in the nom. sg., ou in the gen. sg., and short a in voc. sg.
"pure alpha" can be long or short.
"impure alpha" is a short alpha after a consonant other han rho.
Alpha is usually long. We can identify a short alpha in the following ways:
An accented antepult in words with 3 or more syllables; an alpha in the
nominative after a consanant other than rho; an impure alpha if the
genetive is listed.
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