Augmentation

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Chairete philoi!

As you will notice especially by my post count, this is my first post here. I figured it would be the right thing to do to sign up at the forum since I’ve been lurking around for a few days already, and now a reason popped up:

I have been looking now in the four Greek grammars I have accessible for an explanation on how to apply augment to verbs beginning with an aspirated vowel (if there are any?), and the only sort-of-answer I could figure was that it is applied as were it a regular syllabic augment because of the development from initial s- to r- (exemplified with *sepomai > hepomai - *esepomai > eepomai > eipomai). (an example from my very thorough school-morhpology). I couldn’t find the same concept described in Goodwin or Smyth.

That leaves me with two questions: Is this the right answer, and, more importantly, do all initial aspirations stem from initial sigma? If not, how do I then apply the augment?

Thank you in advance (I felt it would be rude to e-mail my teacher while she’s on holiday)

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And that is, of course, the reason why we love the Greek grammar so.

I realised there is a list of irregularly formed augments in Smyth (§431), and that basically answers everything. The reason for my question was, as I could have imagined, that it had long past midnight over here. :smiley:

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Don’t forget indirect discourse!

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And my personal favourites, the -μι verbs