Accenting in -σις, -εως nouns
Posted: September 27th, 2021, 10:00 am
I'm in the process of editing a second year Koine reader and while checking the vocabulary lists, it suddenly hit me that the accenting on -σις, -εως nouns appears anomalous. I checked Smyth, but came up empty, except for his comment in §840.a.2 about their formation as feminine abstracts. But I can't find any comment on the accent remaining on the antepenult in the genitive singular. And I can't seem to locate a paradigm, but that's probably just because I'm not looking in the correct spot.
Here's what I mean: φανέρωσις, εως, ἡ. I would have expected the accent to be -έως because of the omega. But, somewhere in the back of my head there is a memory of this as being considered short for accenting... I just can't pull it up. And rifling through the index of Smyth hasn't pulled anything. I don't have Carson's Greek Accents, so can't check there.
Is there a digamma lurking in the background somewhere? That seems to be in my mind as well.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
James
Here's what I mean: φανέρωσις, εως, ἡ. I would have expected the accent to be -έως because of the omega. But, somewhere in the back of my head there is a memory of this as being considered short for accenting... I just can't pull it up. And rifling through the index of Smyth hasn't pulled anything. I don't have Carson's Greek Accents, so can't check there.
Is there a digamma lurking in the background somewhere? That seems to be in my mind as well.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
James