Future Active Indicative (Liquid)

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valadin007
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Future Active Indicative (Liquid)

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Hello, This is my first time here.

We are currently learning the Future Active Indicative (liquid) chart for Pattern 3 verbs. We learned that εσ is the tense formative for this pattern, however, we also learned that the "σ" always drops out and the ε interacts with the connecting vowel and contracts. What I'm wondering is, if the "σ" always drops out, then how do we know that the tense formative is εσ instead of just ε if we never ever see the sigma. If it never exists in a liquid verb, then why is it listed as the tense formative just to say that it "drops out". Why not just say that the epsilon and omega contract, and the way you tell its FAI liquid is the circumflex above it. Did the sigma ever appear somewhere in a different variation of Greek at some point?

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Re: Future Active Indicative (Liquid)

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We learned that εσ is the tense formative for this pattern, however, we also learned that the "σ" always drops out and the ε interacts with the connecting vowel and contracts.
This is the most economical explanation for these forms, since in Greek the future tense is typically formed by adding σ (the "sigmatic" future), and σ usually is lost between vowels.

There are some poetic forms without ε with "sigmatic" futures. See Smyth 536:
536. ς is retained in the poetic forms κέλσω (κέλλω land, κελ-), κύρσω (κύ_ρω meet, κυρ-), θέρσομαι (θέρομαι warm myself, θερ-), ὄρσω (ὄρνυ_μι rouse, ὀρ-). So also in the aorist. See ἀραρίσκω, εἴλω, κείρω, φθείρω, φύ_ρω
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/tex ... ythp%3D536

You can see all the forms of κυρέω here:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/tex ... 3Dkure%2Fw

κέλλω is a poetic verb whose future is κέλσω, but a contract form κελῶ is also recorded.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/tex ... 3Dke%2Fllw

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Re: Future Active Indicative (Liquid)

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Thanks! That helps.

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