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  • What really matters is the ending (the “desinence”) of the elements.
  • Conservation must, therefore, be the rule, and desinence the impossible exception.
  • There are not that many desinences, it is actually the null desinence which makes the nouns to expose a variety of endings.
  • The desinence -ê'ïos has been given an entry of its her? own, with what are actually the definition and examples of the whole word "parthenê'ïos", which in turn does...
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