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Quality 

 -M- (-ia, f. ) primary or secondary denominative, mostly paroxy- 



tone: ap/j-ov-ia, harmony 

 -05-, -es- (-*?, m. or f. ) primary oxytone: ^-ws, dawn 



(-os, n.) primary recessive: /?ap-os, weight, Ipevfl-os, 

 redness 



-Trjr- (-TI/S, f.) secondary denominative paroxytone: ACTTT-O-TT/S, 

 thinness; whence -OT-TJT- (-oVr/s, f. ) Travr-or^, universality 

 -0-wa- (-a-wrj, f . ) secondary denominative paroxytone: O-W^O-O-WT/, 

 prudence 



State or Object 



-Sov- (-Son/, f. ) secondary verbal oxytone: aXy-y-Sw, suffering 

 -IJLOVO- (-povrj, f. ) primary verbal oxytone: -^ap-^ovri, joy 

 -TV- (-TVS, f. , -TV, n. ) primary: ftpa-Tv?, meat; OUT-TV, town 

 -vS, -v0- (-vs, f.) primary, often oxytone: x^P-W) cloak 



Diminutives 



-to- (-iov, n.) primary or secondary denominative paroxytone:. 

 arrop-iov, little spore. Various suffixes of stems haye be- 

 come attached to this diminutive, giving the common di- 

 minutive suffixes, -apiov, -tSioi/, -vSpiov, -vAAiov, -v<iov, all 

 forming neuter proparoxytones. 



-UTKO- (-IO-KOS, m., -uTKYf, f . ) primary or secondary denominative 

 paroxytone: vcav-tb-Kos, youth; muS-i"?/, little girl. This 

 suffix sometimes combines with -iov to form a suffix -UTKIOV, 

 neuter proparoxytone; do-7riS-io-/aov, small shield. 



Patronymics 



-8a- (-8>;s, m.) secondary denominative paroxytone 

 -8- (-s (8s) f. ) secondary denominative oxytone 



Stems of the first declension add the suffix directly: Bopea-Sijs, 



son of Boreas; Bopea-s, daughter of Boreas. 

 Stems of the second declension replace o of the stem with 

 i: npia/A-ufys, son of Priam; n/ata/x-is, daughter of Priam. 

 Those in -to, however, change o to a, giving the suffixes 

 -u8ys and -ias. 



Stems of the third declension insert t before the suffix, ev drop- 

 ping the v before i: KeKporr-t'Siys, a son of Cecrops; 

 ts, daughter of Cecrops. 



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