MORE About Greek Accents and other “weird stuff”

General Principles An acute accent can remain on the antepenult ONLY if the ultima is short; otherwise it MUST move to the penult. If the penult is naturally long and the ultima has a short vowel or ends in -ai or -oi, then the accent will be a circumflex. Accents are RECESSIVE (go as far to the left in the word as possible) Accents are PERSISTENT– they tend to remain in the same location for most words

Acute Behavior An acute on the ultima of a word WILL CHANGE to a grave if followed by another word. makr£ (by itself) Makr¦ ¹ ÐdÒj (followed by a word)

Contraction Attic Greek disliked two vowel sounds “rubbing” against each other in two syllables CONTRACTION – removes one of the vowels by combining it with the other tim£w  timî The resulting vowel is a LONG vowel (because it has 2 vowels inside it)

Crasis Crasis (“mingling”) results from cramming one word that ends in a vowel into the following word if it begins with a vowel T¦ ¥lla  t¥lla p, t, and k before an aspirated word turn into their aspirated forms f, q, and c

Elision Elision is the dropping of a short vowel at the end of a word if the following word begins with a vowel ¢ll¦ ¥ge  ¢ll’ ¥ge Note that an apostrophe ’ marks the missing vowel