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
Accenting in -σις, -εως nouns
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Re: Accenting in -σις, -εως nouns
Never mind. I found it in §271, it's accented as if the ending -εος hadn't lengthened, and there doesn't appear to be a digamma lurking behind it. I must be confusing it with something else.
Morale of the story, check Smyth 6 times before posting, not just 4–5!
Morale of the story, check Smyth 6 times before posting, not just 4–5!
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Re: Accenting in -σις, -εως nouns
And a postscript: brain fart about πόλις. I was thinking strictly of nouns ending in -σις and so had blocked out the obvious paradigm!
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