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Greek Accent Rules and Other Language Oddities

Explore Greek accent rules, contractions, crasis, and elision in this informative guide to understanding Greek language features like acute accent behaviors. Learn about persistence and recessiveness of accents along with various linguistic phenomena.

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Greek Accent Rules and Other Language Oddities

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  1. MORE About Greek Accentsand other “weird stuff”

  2. General Principles • An acute accent can remain on the antepenult ONLY if the ultima is short; otherwise it MUST move to the penult. • If the penult is naturally long and the ultima has a short vowel or ends in -ai or -oi, then the accent will be a circumflex. • Accents are RECESSIVE (go as far to the left in the word as possible) • Accents are PERSISTENT– they tend to remain in the same location for most words

  3. Acute Behavior • An acute on the ultima of a word WILL CHANGE to a grave if followed by another word. • makr£ (by itself) • Makr¦ ¹ ÐdÒj (followed by a word)

  4. Contraction • Attic Greek disliked two vowel sounds “rubbing” against each other in two syllables • CONTRACTION – removes one of the vowels by combining it with the other • tim£w  timî • The resulting vowel is a LONG vowel (because it has 2 vowels inside it)

  5. Crasis • Crasis (“mingling”) results from cramming one word that ends in a vowel into the following word if it begins with a vowel • T¦ ¥lla  t¥lla • p, t, and k before an aspirated word turn into their aspirated forms f, q, and c

  6. Elision • Elision is the dropping of a short vowel at the end of a word if the following word begins with a vowel • ¢ll¦ ¥ge  ¢ll’¥ge • Note that an apostrophe ’ marks the missing vowel

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