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On the other hand, athematic nouns and verbs usually had mobile accent, with varied between strong forms, with root accent and full grade in the root (e.g. the singular active of verbs, and the nominative and accusative of nouns), and weak forms, with ending accent and zero grade in the root (e.g. the plural active and all forms of the middle ...
PIE also had a class of monosyllabic root nouns which lack a suffix, the ending being directly added to the root (as in *dómh₂-s 'house', derived from *demh₂-'build' [4]). These nouns can also be interpreted as having a zero suffix or one without a phonetic body (*dóm-Ø-s). [3]
The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from P to Z. See also the lists from A to G and from H to O.
Consonant stem nouns may have up to 3 different stems, as well as two special forms: A special lengthened form for the masculine/feminine nominative singular; A special lengthened and/or nasalized form for the neuter nom/acc. plural; A strong stem [ο] used for masc./fem. sing. acc., dual nom./acc. and plur. nom.
For neuter nouns, the nominative, vocative, and accusative cases are identical. The nominative, vocative, and accusative plural almost always ends in -a. (Both of these features are inherited from Proto-Indo-European, and so no actual syncretism is known to have happened in the historical sense, since these cases of these nouns are not known to have ever been different in the first place.)
If the noun is definite, the adjective can be predicative: [186] agrōs dēseruit incultōs. [187] "He abandoned the fields, leaving them uncultivated." Sometimes the noun, not the adjective, is focussed, and the adjective is a mere tail, as in the following: [188] multum tē in eō frāter adiuvābit meus, multum Balbus. [189]
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Nouns and adjectives [ edit ] The citation form for nouns (the form normally shown in Latin dictionaries) is the Latin nominative singular, but that typically does not exhibit the root form from which English nouns are generally derived.