Accentuation Tutorial
Accentuation Tutorial
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TOPICS Accent and Accent-Marking in Ancient Greek The Last 3 Syllables and the Accents Persistent Accentuation Recessive Accentuation |
Apart from a few exceptions to recessive accentuation found in some imperatives and μι-verb optatives, the only common exception to recessive accentuation involves very short verb forms that have preverb elements (such as the augment or prepositional prefixes). The accent in such forms cannot recede farther than the first preverb element. ἀπεῖχον – imperfect of ἀπέχω, a compound of ἔχω with prepositional prefix ἀπο-: since the second syllable ει replacing ε contains the augment and augment is the first preverb, the accent cannot recede farther than P, even though U is short. παρῆγεν – imperfect of παράγω, a compound of ἄγω with prepositional prefix παρα-: since the second syllable η represents the augment of α and augment is the first preverb, the accent cannot recede farther than P, even though U is short. συνέκδος – imperative of συνεκδίδωμι, a compound of δίδωμι with two prepositional prefixes συν- and εκ-: since εκ is the first preverb, the accent cannot recede farther than P, even though U is short. |
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