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-TiKo- (-TtKos) secondary verbal oxytone: TrpaK-rtKos, practical 

 -ifio- (-i/ios) primary or secondary, mostly verbal, proparoxytone: 



TToT-t/xos, drinkable; Oava-a-ifxas, deadly, hence -o-i/xos? 

 -LfiaLo- (-t/Luxios), virofSoX-ifuiTo^, spurious 



Tifnc 



-ivo- (-ivos) usually secondary, denominative oxytone: -q/xep-Lvos, of 

 day; oTrwp -tvo5 of late summer; x^^o'-t'^os, of yesterday 

 Likeness 



-wSe- (-wSt/?, m., f. , -wSe?, n. ) secondary denominative paroxytone, 

 arising from elSo';, to, form, in composition as the last term, 

 whence the form -oet8»;s, and, by contraction, -wSt^s; Xifiv 

 -wSrj'i, like a marsh, marshy. This suffix is often used to 

 indicate fulness, also. 



Verbal: Capability or Obligation 

 -TO- (-Tos) primary or secondary verbal oxytone: (rxto--Tos, split; 



kXu-tos, renowned; <f>iX-r]-T6s, loved 

 -T€o- (-Tcos) seconc'a'v verbal paroxytone: <^tA-7/-Teos, lovable 



COMPOSITION 



Greek exhibits two types of composition, syntactic and non- 

 syntactic. Syntactic composition is the union under a single ac- 

 cent of two words, one being merely a modifier of the other and 

 in the case demanded by this relation. Such forms arise often 

 from juxtaposition, for reasons of convenience, and are not, 

 properly speaking, compounds, e. g. , Kwos-/8aTo?, dog thorn (kvwv, 

 Kuvos, dog), /Auos-wTt'?, mouse ear (/avo-, fxvos, mouse). The subor- 

 dinate word is usually in the genitive, though, rarely, it may 

 occur in practically any case. In non-syntactic composition, the 

 two terms of the compound are morphologically coordinate, 

 though the one is usually subordinated to the other in meaning. 

 The second word is attached to the stem of the first in the same 

 way that secondary suffixes are added to stems, with the very 

 important exception that the final vowel of the first member has 

 become a universal thematic vowel, or connective, e.g., /xaKpo-arTropa, 

 KopvvT)-<t>opa. Non-syntactic composition is the only real compo- 

 sition. It is so overwhelmingly predominant in Greek that it 



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