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The History of Ancient Greek ην-Inflected Stems.

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Τίτλος: The History of Ancient Greek ην-Inflected Stems.
Συγγραφείς: Pertica, Carlo Maria1 (AUTHOR)
Πηγή: Symbolae Osloenses. Dec2025, Vol. 99 Issue 1, p2-39. 38p.
Θεματικοί όροι: *Inflection (Grammar), *Indo-European languages, *Grammatical gender, *Historical linguistics, Greek history
Περίληψη: 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]
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