A spurious diphthong (or false diphthong) is an Ancient Greek vowel that is etymologically a long vowel but written exactly like a true diphthong ει,...

probably as /eː/. From the late 4th century BC in Attic, the spurious diphthong (pseudo-diphthong) ει (now notating both etymological ει and etymological ε̄)...

(written ει: spurious diphthong) PIE *trey-es → Proto-Greek trees → Attic trēs = τρεῖς "three" e + o → ō (written ου: spurious diphthong) early *genes-os...

/o/, the new letter Ω representing long /ɔː/, and the so-called "spurious diphthong" OY representing long /o:/.(pp 56, 71) Although the Greeks took the...

Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory lengthening Spurious diphthongs v t e...

Lesbian émmen, émmenai; Thessalian, Boeotian eîmen ~ Attic/Ionic eînai (spurious diphthong) "to be" In the Lesbian dialect this ending also extends to the thematic...

Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory lengthening Spurious diphthongs v t e...

correspond to original diphthongs they are called "genuine diphthongs", in all other cases, they are called "spurious diphthongs". In Attic, some cases...

mark is written on a diphthong or vowel written with a digraph such as ει, it is always written above the second vowel of the diphthong, not the first, for...

infix or suffix. When the present has a diphthong (e.g., ει), the second aorist has the offglide of the diphthong (ι). present λείπω "leave", aorist λιπ(ο⁄ε)-...