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The History of Ancient Greek ην-Inflected Stems.
| Title: | The History of Ancient Greek ην-Inflected Stems. |
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| Authors: | Pertica, Carlo Maria1 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Symbolae Osloenses. Dec2025, Vol. 99 Issue 1, p2-39. 38p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Inflection (Grammar), *Indo-European languages, *Grammatical gender, *Historical linguistics, Greek history |
| Abstract: | This article aims to trace the history of Ancient Greek ην-inflected stems from their origins to the inner-Greek developments. Unlike other cases (Germanic and Latin), ēn-inflected stems stood as a tight and analogy-resistant group – characterized by masculine gender and the designation of animals and body parts – from Proto-Indo-European to Greek. This situation allowed the preservation of a suffix -ην, which passed from the original individualizing value of PIE *-n- to a pejorative-augmentative one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Database: | Academic Search Index |
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