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5-] PERSON-ENDINGS. 5
suffer Hyphaeresis (cp. 105, 4),
and drop one e ;
as /owfleat (Od.
2. 202), aTTo-ai/oeo, e/cAeo. But we find also /wtfetat (Od. 8. 180),
velai (Od. 1 1. 114., 12. 141) where it is possible to substitute
the uncontracted /uud&ai, z>eeai -and atSeto (II. 24. 503).
In the Imper. the Ending
-0i is common in Non-Thematic
Tenses :
t-0i, o-rrj-fli, KXv-6i, KexXv-Oi, e.ara-0t, opvv-Oi, (f)dvrj-6i
(II. 18.^198), btia>-0L (Od. 3. 380), ^7uVAr7-0 t (II. 23. 311). We
find -s in 0e-?, 8o-s, Trpot-s (Trpo- 117^1),
and the thematic vi-cnr-s
tell (cp. Attic o-^e-j).
In the forms iffrrj (II. 21. 313), SatVt) (II. 9. 70), SfiKvv (Hes. Th. 526), the long
final vowel probably comes by analogy from the Pres. and Impf. Singular
forms (by the ' proportion ' Impf. e\ef-$, e\tye Imper. : \eye : : iffrr]*, lartj :
forr)}. For the forms Ka6-i),
in which
the phonetic change of -TI to -a(rt, loraori, rt^etcrt, bibova-i, {tvyvva-i (not TiOt-acrt, &c v as in
Attic).
On the accent of these forms, see 87, 2.
The Perfect Act. has -do-t and -ao-i. The latter occurs only
twice in Homer, Tre^K-ao-t (Od. 7. 114), AeXoyxao-iz; (Od. n.
304) for other examples in Ionic see Curt. Verb. ii. 166. In
;
these forms the a belongs to the Ending, since -ao-i is for -an,
which corresponds to the -m of the Doric Qa-vrC, Xtyo-vn (as
-arai in the Mid. to -rrai).
The forms with -dai belong to two
essentially distinct groups; see 7.
The secondary -w (for -avr)
is found in all Aorists which form
the i Sing, in -a. It may also be traced in the Impf. of et/xt,
in the form j\v (Hes. Th. 321, 825), for ^av (Sanscr. asan).
Non-Thematic -v occurs in the forms !