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|etymtx=Grammatical information: preterite prefix<br />Meaning: the augment (Il.).<br />Other forms: rarely <b class="b3">ἠ-</b> (s. below)<br />Dialectal forms: rare in Mycenaean, [[apedoke]] \/<b class="b2">ap-e-doke</b>\/.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] <b class="b2">*h₁e-</b> augment<br />Etymology: Old element, also found in Indo-Iiranian (<b class="b2">a-</b>, <b class="b2">ā-</b>), Armenian (<b class="b2">e-</b>) and Phrygian (<b class="b2">e-</b>), e. g. <b class="b3">ἔ-φερε</b> = Skt. <b class="b2">á-bharat</b>, Arm. <b class="b2">e-ber</b>; Phryg. <b class="b3">ἔ-δαες</b> [[ἔθηκε]]. See Schwyzer 651ff.; on the form <b class="b3">ἠ-</b> s. Debrunner, Festschrift Zucker 85ff; Rix, Hist. Gramm. d. griech. 226ff. Often long vowel through contractieon: <b class="b2">*e-h₂ege-t</b> > <b class="b3">ἠ̃γε</b>. A long augment analogically from [[ἠθελον]] < <b class="b2">*e-h₁dhel-</b>, e.g. in [[ήβουλόμην]]. Probably all long augments are analogical (Ruijgh, Lingua 28, 1971, 166.
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