Talk:-λλω

I don't think it's a valid suffix. --Barytonesis (talk) 07:46, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

I created the entry, but it's certainly kind of dodgy. I don't know what should be done. Maybe -λω would be better (ἀγγελ- + -λω), or maybe it is the sort of thing that should go in an appendix rather than an entry. I did -λλω because the Proto-Greek palatalized lateral is only found geminated. — Eru·tuon 07:54, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

I think it's a bit of stretch to consider it synchronically a suffix of Ancient Greek. In a very abstract representation it could be considered an allomorph of a morpheme -ι̯ω, whose other allomorphs would be -πτω, -φθω, -σσω, -ζω, -ινω, -ιρω, etc., but even that's pushing it. I doubt native speakers considered such present stems to have suffixes at all; rather, ἀγγελλ- was probably felt to be an allomorph of ἀγγελ- and so forth. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 09:21, 17 October 2017 (UTC)