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

Cirk Bejnar eluchil404 at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 20 16:10:56 EDT 2007


--- Delbert Flora <delbert.flora at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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

To amplphy slightly what others have said.  The case
ending for the nominative is, historically, -s.  This
ending must be removed from the nominative form to
find the stem.  However, in some cases this 's' is not
added.  In particular feminine nouns of the first
declension don't have it so the nominative form is the
same as the stem.

Cirk R. Bejnar

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