Re: EAK Adjectives, Article & Pronouns

Philip Newton wrote:
> On 5/13/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
>
>> Contracted forms
>> Adjectives in -εος and -οος were often contracted:
>> i. For those in -εος, (-ους) use the uncontracted form and apply the
>> rule above, e.g.
>> χρυσούς (χρύσεος), χρυσή (χρυσέη), χρυσούν (χρύσεον)
>> ---> χρύσεο
>> "golden" *
>
>
> (How do we know that it's χρύσεος and not χρυσέος?)
That is the accentuation given in both the Liddell & Scott dictionary
(which I careless referred to as 'Lewis & Short' in a recent email; the
latter are editors of a famous Latin dictionary) and in William Goodwin'
  "A Greek Grammar". I assume these two authorities have done their
homework.

We are, in fact, fairly ignorant about the pitch accent of many ancient
dialects; we are most informed about the Epic dialect (i.e. Homer),
Attic and Aiolian. χρύσεος is common enough in Epic, and χρυσούς is of
course Attic (at least it would be if the accent were circumflex   :)

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