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For example, in Greek, the verb λέγω ''légo'', “I say”, forms its imperfect tense έλεγα; ''élega'', “I was saying”. The initial ε ''e'' represents the augment.

Historical Linguists are uncertain whether the augment is a feature that was added to these branches of Indo-European, or whether the augment was present in the parent language and lost by all other branches (see also Proto-Greek ).

The term has also been extended to describe similar features in non-Indo-Europeans languages. For example, in Nahuatl , the perfect ''ō-'' prefix is called an augment.