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MORE About Greek Accents and other “weird stuff”
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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