MORE About Greek Accents and other weird stuff

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MORE About Greek Accentsand other weird stuff
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General Principles

• An acute accent can remain on the antepenult ONLY
  if the ultima is short otherwise it MUST move to
  the penult.
• If the penult is naturally long and the ultima
  has a short vowel or ends in -ai or -oi, then the
  accent will be a circumflex.
• Accents are RECESSIVE (go as far to the left in
  the word as possible)
• Accents are PERSISTENT they tend to remain in
  the same location for most words

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Acute Behavior

• An acute on the ultima of a word WILL CHANGE to a
  grave if followed by another word.
• makr (by itself)
• Makr ¹ ÐdÒj (followed by a word)

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Contraction

• Attic Greek disliked two vowel sounds rubbing
  against each other in two syllables
• CONTRACTION removes one of the vowels by
  combining it with the other
• timw ? timî
• The resulting vowel is a LONG vowel (because it
  has 2 vowels inside it)

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Crasis

• Crasis (mingling) results from cramming one
  word that ends in a vowel into the following word
  if it begins with a vowel
• T lla ? tlla
• p, t, and k before an aspirated word turn into
  their aspirated forms f, q, and c

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Elision

• Elision is the dropping of a short vowel at the
  end of a word if the following word begins with a
  vowel
• ll ge ? ll ge
• Note that an apostrophe marks the missing vowel