<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <meta name="author" content="Herbert Weir Smyth"/><meta name="generator" content="Text Encoding Initiative Consortium XSLT stylesheets"/><meta name="DC.Title" content=""/><meta name="DC.Type" content="Text"/><meta name="DC.Format" content="application/xhtml+xml"/><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8"/><link href="tei.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/><link href="alph-tei.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/></head><body id="TOP"><div class="smythp" id="s837"><h2 class="institution"/><h2 class="department"/><h1 class="maintitle">837</h1><p class="right"><span class="upLink"> Up: </span><a class="navigation" href="body.1_div1.3.html">Part III: Formation of Words</a><span class="nextLink"> Next: </span><a class="navigation" href="body.1_div1.3_div2.17.html">FORMATION OF SUBSTANTIVES</a></p> <p> <b>Insertion of tau</b>.—In a few words <span class="foreign">τ</span> is inserted before the suffixes <span class="foreign">μο, μα, μη, μην</span>. Thus, <span class="foreign">ἐφ-ε-τ-μή</span> <span class="gloss">command</span> (<span class="foreign">ἐφί̄ημι</span>, root <span class="foreign">ἑ, ἡ</span>), <span class="foreign">λαῖ-τ-μα</span> <span class="gloss">depth of the sea</span>, <span class="foreign">ἀϋ-τ-μή</span> and <span class="foreign">ἀϋ-τ-μήν</span> <span class="gloss">breath</span> (<span class="foreign">ἄημι</span> <span class="gloss">blow</span>). In <span class="foreign">ἐρετ-μό-ν</span> <span class="gloss">oar</span> the <span class="foreign">τ</span> may be part of the verb-stem (<span class="foreign">ἐρέσσω</span>, <a class="link_ref" href="body.1_div1.2_div2.10.html#s515" title="">515</a>), and have spread thence to the other words. </p> <div class="stdfooter"><hr/><div class="footer"/><hr/><address> Herbert Weir Smyth. <br/><div xmlns="" class="rights_info"><p class="cc_rights"><a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png"/></a><br/>This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License</a>. </p></div></address></div><div xmlns="" class="perseus-funder">The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.</div><div xmlns="" class="perseus-publication">XML for this text provided by <span class="publisher">Trustees of Tufts University</span><span class="pubPlace">Medford, MA</span><span class="authority">Perseus Project</span></div></div></body></html>