Accentuation Tutorial

TOPICS

Accent and Accent-Marking in Ancient Greek

Contonation and Mora

The Last 3 Syllables and the Accents
•acute
•circumflex
•grave
•ultima
•penult
•antepenult
•more examples

Multiple Clitics

Traditional Terminology

Persistent Accentuation
• a- and o-declension
• consonant declension

Recessive Accentuation

Persistent Accentuation (4 of 7): examples for a-declension	Previous \| Next

γνώμη	acute on P in nom. sing. (“main form”)
γνώμης	acute persists on P
γνώμῃ	acute persists on P
γνώμην	acute persists on P
γνώμη	acute persists on P
γνῶμαι	accent persists on P, but circumflex because of short U (final αι counts as short) – rule 2
γνωμῶν	circumflex on U of genitive plural of all a-declension nouns – rule 3
γνώμαις	acute persists on P (αι with ς following is not final, so counts as long)
γνώμᾱς	acute persists on P

Feminine forms from the adjective ἄξιος, ἀξίᾱ, ἄξιον

ἀξίᾱ	acute moves to P from A because of long U (“main form” nom. sing. masc. has acute on A with short U)
ἀξίᾱς	acute moves to P from A because of long U
ἀξίᾳ	acute moves to P from A because of long U
ἀξίᾱν	acute moves to P from A because of long U
ἀξίᾱ	acute moves to P from A because of long U
ἄξιαι	acute persists on A (final αι counts as short)
ἀξίων	acute moves to P from A because of long U
ἀξίαις	acute moves to P from A because of long U (αι with ς following is not final, so counts as long)
ἀξίᾱς	acute moves to P from A because of long U
	NOTE: if this were the noun ἀξίᾱ, ἀξίᾱς, then the genitive plural would be accented ἀξιῶν by rule 3.