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Herbert Weir Smyth [n.d.], A Greek Grammar for Colleges; Machine readable text [info] [word count] [Smyth].

539. b. D

For Hom. -οω for -αω, see ^cross645.

c. All verbs in -αννυ_μι have futures in -ά (ς) ω, -ῶ. Thus, σκεδάννυ_μι (σκεδα-) scatter, poet. σκεδάσω, Attic σκεδῶ. Similarly some verbs in -εννυ_μι: ἀμφιέννυ_μι (ἀμφιε-) clothe, Epic ἀμφιέσω, Attic ἀμφιῶ; στόρνυ_μι (στορ-ε-) spread, late στορέσω, Attic στορῶ.

d. A very few verbs in -αζω have the contracted form. βιβάζω (βιβαδ-) cause to go usually has Attic βιβῶ from βιβάσω. So ἐξετῶμεν ἐξετάσομεν from ἐξετάζω examine.

e. Verbs in -ιζω of more than two syllables drop ς and insert ε, thus making -ι (ς) έω, -ι (ς) έομαι, which contract to -ιῶ and -ιοῦμαι, as in the Doric future ( ^cross540).

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So νομίζω (νομιδ-) consider makes νομισεω, νομι-εω, νομιῶ and in like manner νομιοῦμαι, both inflected like ποιῶ, ποιοῦμαι. So ἐθιοῦσι, οἰκιοῦντες from ἐθίζω accustom, οἰκίζω colonize. But σχίζω (σχιδ-) split makes σχίσω. νομιῶ etc. are due to the analogy of the liquid verbs.

N.—Such forms in Attic texts as ἐλάσω, τελέσω, νομίσω, βιβάσω are erroneous.

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Herbert Weir Smyth [n.d.], A Greek Grammar for Colleges; Machine readable text [info] [word count] [Smyth].