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Irregular aorist imperative from ἔχω
There are a handful of verbs that take -ς in the 2sg. aorist imperative: the others are δίδωμι, τίθημι, ἵημι (δός, θές, ἕς). The origin of this -ς is a mystery.
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Different ways to accent active aorist infinitives ending in 'αι' (Greek)
Wiktionary is simply wrong if it says that κώλυσαι, σιώπησαι are infinitives: they can only be aorist middle imperatives. The aorist active infinitives are κωλῦσαι, σιωπῆσαι.
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Subjunctive αἰδέσεται rather than αἰδέσηται?
This is a relic of an older set of rules for forming the subjunctive.
In Proto-Indo-European, the subjunctive was formed by adding *-e/o- to the verb stem. In thematic forms, which already end in *-e/...
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Is there an aoristic-perfective distinction in the Latin perfect?
There is, in fact!
As you mention, the Latin "perfect tense" is a combination of the present perfective and past aoristic tense-aspect combinations, which remained separate in Greek (the &...
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What are the θη-future and θη-aorist?
These terms are presumably intended to refer either to all aorist passives and future passives, or possibly to just the ones with a theta, a.k.a. "first aorist passives" and "first future passives".
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Subjunctive Protasis and Aorist Indicative Apodosis
It's still a present general conditional. You might have noticed in some grammars that they will say for the present general apodosis, it takes the "present indicative or an equivalent." The ...
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A question about accentuation for aorist infinitives
The rule of thumb for the accentuation of infinitives is the following:
infinitives in -σθαι are accented recessively (e.g. λείπεσθαι),
except in the thematic aorist (λιπέσθαι) and the perfect (...
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What are the θη-future and θη-aorist?
Yes, that is correct. The only tenses/stems that can get θη are the aorist passive and the future passive: the others have passive meaning expressed by the middle voice (this being Greek, there will ...
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Should the phrase "I often saw" use the imperfect or the aorist in Greek?
This is an interesting question. A priori, one would think the imperfect would be the obvious choice here, as it's the tense generally used to denote repeated action, but actual Greek usage doesn't ...
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What's going on with ablaut in forms like ἔβην, βῆναι, φανῆναι?
Both of these go back to Proto-Greek palatal nasals.
There are two reconstructed roots behind βαίνω: some forms come from *gʷem-, while others come from *gʷeh₂-. These two roots look extremely similar ...
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What is the semantic difference between the present and aorist forms of the Greek imperative?
Having given this topic further thought, I think I can explain all the imperatives I have encountered to my satisfaction and so want to give an answer that might help others and is what I would have ...
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