Aorist - The s-aorist

Aorist (from Greek αοριστος, indefinite) is a term used in certain Indo-European languages to refer to a particular grammatical tense and/or aspect. It is often distinguished from the imperfect and perfect, and is similar to the preterite in languages such as Spanish. There is some confusion over whether the aorist is a tense or an aspect. This reflects the schizophrenic nature of the aorist in Ancient Greek, the most well-known language with an aorist. In the indicative, the Ancient Greek aorist represents a combinatio ...

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• Aorist - Morphology
• Aorist - The s-aorist
• Aorist - Ablaut
• Aorist - Reduplication

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In Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, the aorist is marked by several morphological devices, but three stand out as most common. Aorist - The s-aorist. The first is the s-aorist, so called because an 's' is inserted between the root and the personal ending. In Latin, for example, dico means "I say", while dixi (from dic-s-i) means "I said"; in Greek, ακουω akouō means "I hear", while ηκουσα ēkousa means "I heard." (Grammatical note: the first letter of ...

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Aorist, Aorist - Morphology, Aorist - The s-aorist, Aorist - Ablaut, Aorist - Reduplication

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