-ομαι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *-oh₂er, the regular first person present middle indicative ending of thematic verbs, with renewal of the *-r by *-i as marker of present tense (as in active endings), along with analogical introduction of the *m in the corresponding active form in athematic verbs.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Suffix

-ομαι • (-omai)

  1. Marks the first person singular present mediopassive indicative of non-deponent verbs and the first person singular present active indicative of deponent verbs

See also

Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ομαι
ἀπαλθαίνομαι
ἀπονευρόομαι
δείλομαι
κατοικειόομαι
οικειόομαι

References

  1. ^ Lundquist, Jesse, Yates, Anthony D. (2017–2018) “Chapter XX: Proto-Indo-European”, in Klein, Jared S., Joseph, Brian D., Fritz, Matthias, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft [Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science]; 41.2), Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, § The morphology of Proto-Indo-European, page 2154
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