[B-Greek] Feminine declension in stem endings Alpha or Eta

Delbert Flora delbert.flora at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 18 18:53:35 EDT 2007


To Whom This Concerns:

I noticed your service on the Internet and wanted to make use of it if that 
is acceptable. I will be asking some very elementary questions in virtue of 
the fact that I am just now learning Greek. (If you do not bother with such 
trivial questions, do you know of a service like yours but for novices?)

I am reading a book by Wm. Mounce on the Basics of Greek and he said that 
the First Declension nouns are Feminine and Second Declension nouns are 
Masculine and sometimes Neuter. For Second Declension nouns he gives as 
example LOGOS. The stem is LOGO, and since it ends in O, it is Second 
Declension. That is all well and fine. But then he tells the reader that 
GRAFH is Feminine since it ends in Eta. But if LOGOS acts like GRAFH, then 
I'm wondering if the stem of GRAFH is GRAF? And if it is, why is it called a 
noun with an ending in Eta, not PHI?

Delbert Flora

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