-α
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Hellenic *-ā́, from Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂. Cognate with Latin feminine -a, from Old Latin and Proto-Italic *-ā (both in names and adjectives).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a/
Suffix
[edit]-ᾱ • (-ā) f (genitive -ᾱς); first declension
Usage notes
[edit]- Earlier -ᾱ (-ā) is retained in certain dialects, and in Attic after ε, ι and ρ, whence -εᾱ (-eā), -ιᾱ (-iā) and -ρᾱ (-rā).
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Uncertain. Some proposals have been:
- from the neuter accusative plural ending -ᾰ (-ă)[1]
- from Proto-Indo-European *-n̥[1]
- from Proto-Indo-European *-a[2]
Or from a combination of those.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a/
Suffix
[edit]-ᾰ • (-ă)
- Added to adjectival roots to form an adverb: -ly
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Schwyzer, Eduard (1939, 1950), Griechische Grammatik: auf der Grundlage von Karl Brugmanns Griechischer Grammatik (Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft; 1, part 1) (in German), München: C. H. Beck, pages 622-3
- ^ Dunkel, George E. (2014), Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (in German), volume 1: Einleitung, Terminologie, Lautgesetze, Adverbialendungen, Nominalsuffixe, Anhänge und Indices, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, pages 110-5
Greek
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-α • (-a)
- used with a noun to form an augmentative:
- added to adjectival roots to form an adverb:
- to form the feminine:
- an inflectional ending, some examples:
Derived terms
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
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- Ancient Greek unaccented terms
- Ancient Greek noun-forming suffixes
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
- Ancient Greek feminine suffixes
- Ancient Greek terms with unknown etymologies
- Ancient Greek adverb-forming suffixes
- Greek lemmas
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- Greek suffix forms
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