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When uncontracted, verbs in -αω often show in the Mss. of Hom., not the original open forms, but “assimilated” forms of the concurrent vowels, αε, αει, αη giving a double a sound by α prevailing over the e sound; αο, αω, αοι, αου giving a double o sound by the o sound prevailing over the α. One of the vowels is commonly lengthened, rarely both.
| αε = (1) | αα: ὁράεσθαι ὁράασθαι, ἀγά- |
| εσθε ἀγάασθε. | |
| = (2) | α_α: μνάεσθαι μνά_ασθαι, ἠγά- |
| εσθε ἠγά_ασθε. | |
| αει = (1) | αᾳ: ὁράεις ὁράᾳς, ἐάει ἐάᾳ. |
| = (2) | α_ᾳ: μενοινάει μενοινά_ᾳ. |
| αῃ = (1) | αᾳ: ἐάῃς ἐάᾳς. |
| = (2) | α_ᾳ: μνάῃ |
| = μνά_ᾳ. | |
| αο = (1) | οω: ὁράοντες ὁρόωντες. |
| = (2) | ωο: ἡβάοντες ἡβώοντες, μνά- |
| οντο μνώοντο. | |
| αω = (1) | οω: ὁράω ὁρόω, βοάων |
| βοόων. | |
| = (2) | ωω: μενοινάω μενοινώω. |
| αοι = (1) | οῳ: ὁράοιτε ὁρόῳτε. |
| = (2) | ωοι:ἡβάοιμι ἡβώοιμι. |
| αου = (1) | οω: ὁράουσα ὁρόωσα, ὁρά- |
| ουσι ὁρόωσι, ἀλάου (from | |
| ἀλάεο imper. of ἀλάομαι) = | |
| ἀλόω. | |
| = (2) | ωω: ἡβάουσα ἡβώωσα, δρά- |
| ουσι δρώωσι. ου here is | |
| a spurious diphthong (6) | |
| derived from -οντ-: ὁρα- | |
| οντ-yα, ἡβαοντ-yα, δρά_οντι; | |
| or by contraction in ἀλάου | |
| from ἀλάεο. |
N.—ἀλόω from ἀλάεο
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Herbert Weir Smyth [n.d.], A Greek Grammar for Colleges; Machine readable text [info] [word count] [Smyth].
