Talk:ἐλεέω

Three ε's in a row?

The verb forms are generated by templates ... are we sure theyre correct? I didnt know ancient Greek could have three e's in a row. I remember coming across the word πεεε on the πέος page and asking the same question, and I see that that page no longer shows forms with 3 e's. —Soap— 02:09, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

@Soap: The three epsilons in a row might exist if the present tense is attested in Ionic or Epic, but I didn't find any examples of the present tense in Homer in the Perseus under PhiloLogic website, and Herodotus doesn't use any forms of the word at all.

{{grc-conj}} is misleading because displays uncontracted forms even when they are not necessarily attested in any dialect. (For instance I think uncontracted forms for verbs in -άω aren't used by any dialect.) It should instead show the forms for a particular dialect: Attic (mostly contracted), or Ionic or Epic (both of with more uncontracted forms), and so on. But I haven't gotten very far in my my rewrite of Module:grc-conj yet. Till then maybe the nonexistent forms will remain in the conjugation tables. — Eru·tuon 04:25, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Okay, thank you very much for the prompt reply. I noticed the difference between the contracted and full forms but I dont know much about ancient Greek so I wasnt sure if I was looking at two alternate forms of each word or if they were both correct and used in different contexts. —Soap— 04:35, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Proposed etymology

See my comment in Talk:ἔλεγος

Zezen (talk) 11:34, 29 August 2021 (UTC)