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

Proclitics

Enclitics

Multiple Clitics

Traditional Terminology

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

Recessive Accentuation

Recessive Accentuation (3 of 3): contract verbs	Previous

In contracted forms of verbs in Attic, the accentuation derives from that of the original uncontracted form:

(1) When the first of the two uncontracted vowels originally had an acute, the resulting contracted vowel has the circumflex, maintaining the contonation of the original form, but now on one long vowel.

(2) When the second of the two uncontracted vowels originally had an acute, the resulting contracted vowel has the acute, maintaining the contonation of the original form.

(3) When neither of the two uncontracted vowels originally had an accent, the resulting contracted vowel has no accent.

ποιέομεν – uncontracted original form, acute on A with short U
ποιοῦμεν – contracted Attic form, circumflex on P with short U – rule 1

ἐτιμαόμεθα – uncontracted original form, acute on A with short U
ἐτιμώμεθα – contracted Attic form, acute on A with short U – rule 2

ἐδήλοον – uncontracted original form, acute on A with short U
ἐδήλουν – contracted Attic form, acute on P with long U – rule 3