Timeline for Are there verbs in -o-?
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| May 11, 2018 at 1:58 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | @Draconis Studying contractions certainly merits asking separate questions. It would be great to be able to predict contractions rather than only justifying sound changes by them. (There are words like Danaos and coortus, but I don't find these examples for -ao- and -oo- fully satisfying.) | |
| May 11, 2018 at 1:52 | comment | added | Draconis♦ | @JoonasIlmavirta Good question! Probably deserves to be asked separately. I can't think of any Latin words that actually have ao or oo in them (except the ones listed above), but plenty with eo and io, and a few with uo. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 1:50 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | @Draconis If -oo>-o, then why doesn't -eo>-o and -io>-o and -uo>-o? (To be honest, I don't know why the first conjugation contracts but the others don't. Understanding that might help.) | |
| May 11, 2018 at 1:46 | comment | added | Rafael | @Draconis when searching in Perseus, you can choose to look for exact words, or words beginning/ending with/containing a pattern | |
| May 11, 2018 at 1:46 | comment | added | Draconis♦ | Apart from that…it seems likely that -o-ō would contract to -ō in Latin, like how ama-ō > amō, and dēlóō > dēlô in Greek. Is there any way to search for inflected forms like -oere? | |
| May 11, 2018 at 1:45 | comment | added | Rafael | @Draconis I didn't see Joonas's answer. But I was thinking the same: the roots are more explicitly -are. Yet they are the closest one can think of... Unless there was 1) a verb in -oo, -ois, -oere, or 2) something oddly irregular. 1) seems ruled out by L&S, 2) seems very unlikely to me | |
| May 11, 2018 at 1:40 | history | edited | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 11, 2018 at 1:38 | comment | added | Draconis♦ | Out of curiosity, how are you searching L&S for these? I'm used to accessing the text through Perseus, which is great for looking up individual words but not good for finding all the words matching a criterion. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 1:37 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | @Draconis True. The point was that these are the closest we have to o-stem verbs in Latin. I'll expand. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 1:35 | comment | added | Draconis♦ | These are interesting, but the stems themselves seem to be bova-, rebova-, and incoha-. (L&S mention the v and h, and the a shows in the conjugation. The -a- in bova- can also be seen in the Greek cognate, which is an a-contract.) | |
| May 11, 2018 at 1:25 | history | answered | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |