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Several contract verbs have stems in -α_, -η, -ω.
These are the verbs of 394, 398 with apparently irregular contraction, and δρῶ do; with presents made from -α_-yω, -η-yω, -ω-yω. Thus, from ζήω, ζήεις, ζήει and χρήομαι, χρήε (ς) αι, χρήεται come ζῶ, ζῇς, ζῇ and χρῶμαι, χρῇ, χρῆται; so διψῆν, πεινῆν from διψή-εν, πεινή-εν. ίδρόω, ῥι_γόω ( cross398) derive the forms in ω and ῳ from ἱδρω-, ῥι_γω- (ἱδρώω, ῥι_γώω from ἱδρως-yω, ῥι_γως-yω). The forms in -οω are from the weaker stems ἰδρος-, ῥι_γος-.
Herbert Weir Smyth [
n.d.],
A Greek Grammar for Colleges; Machine readable text [
info] [
word count] [
Smyth].
