-σκω
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti, inchoative or inceptive suffix.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /skɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /sko/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /sko/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /sko/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sko/
Suffix[edit]
-σκω • (-skō)
- Primitive suffix used to form present-tense stems, very rarely associated with the inchoative meaning of becoming
Inflection[edit]
Present: -σκω, -σκομαι
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | -σκω | -σκεις | -σκει | -σκετον | -σκετον | -σκομεν | -σκετε | -σκουσῐ(ν) | ||||
| subjunctive | -σκω | -σκῃς | -σκῃ | -σκητον | -σκητον | -σκωμεν | -σκητε | -σκωσῐ(ν) | |||||
| optative | -σκοιμῐ | -σκοις | -σκοι | -σκοιτον | -σκοίτην | -σκοιμεν | -σκοιτε | -σκοιεν | |||||
| imperative | -σκε | -σκέτω | -σκετον | -σκέτων | -σκετε | -σκόντων | |||||||
| middle/ passive |
indicative | -σκομαι | -σκῃ, -σκει |
-σκεται | -σκεσθον | -σκεσθον | -σκόμεθᾰ | -σκεσθε | -σκονται | ||||
| subjunctive | -σκωμαι | -σκῃ | -σκηται | -σκησθον | -σκησθον | -σκώμεθᾰ | -σκησθε | -σκωνται | |||||
| optative | -σκοίμην | -σκοιο | -σκοιτο | -σκοισθον | -σκοίσθην | -σκοίμεθᾰ | -σκοισθε | -σκοιντο | |||||
| imperative | -σκου | -σκέσθω | -σκεσθον | -σκέσθων | -σκεσθε | -σκέσθων | |||||||
| active | middle/passive | ||||||||||||
| infinitive | -σκειν | -σκεσθαι | |||||||||||
| participle | m | -σκων | -σκόμενος | ||||||||||
| f | -σκουσᾰ | -σκομένη | |||||||||||
| n | -σκον | -σκόμενον | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | -σκον | -σκες | -σκε(ν) | -σκετον | -σκέτην | -σκομεν | -σκετε | -σκον | ||||
| middle/ passive |
indicative | -σκόμην | -σκου | -σκετο | -σκεσθον | -σκέσθην | -σκόμεθᾰ | -σκεσθε | -σκοντο | ||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 526, 527