Jesse Goulet wrote:Mounce lists the root of πόλις, -εως as "πολς", but doesn't this word have a consonantal iota in its root? I thought it would be "πολι" instead.
Jesse Goulet wrote:Mounce lists the root of πόλις, -εως as "πολς", but doesn't this word have a consonantal iota in its root? I thought it would be "πολι" instead.
Mark Lightman wrote:My two favourite Greek morphologists are Bill Mounce and Homer. Take a look at how Homer (according to Benner) declines πόλις
πόλις
πόλιος (πόληος)
πόλει (for πόλιι; cf. Θέτιι!)
πόλιν
πόλιες (πόληες)
πολίων
πολίεσσιν
πόλιας (πόληας, πόλῑς, πόλεις)
Homer is wonderfully regular, except when he is not
Mark Lightman wrote:I read recently—I forgot where—an “explanation” for how we got the familiar irregular πόλεως from the perfectly regular gen sing πόλιος. πόλιος became πόληος and then the eta was shorted to epsilon while the omicron was lengthened to omega. With explanations like that, who needs mysteries! The does at any rate “explain” why πόλεως allows an accent on the antepenult with a long ultima.
Mark Lightman wrote:To remember the “root” of πόλις just memorize the vocative.
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