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Greek , Georgian and Sanskrit are examples of languages with an optative mood. OPTATIVE IN ANCIENT GREEK Gordon M. Messing attests: In dealing with the endings of the optative mood, Herbert Weir Smyth merely noted without comment that the first person singular ending except after -ιη- was -μι, despite his previous statement that the optative usually has the endings of the secondary Tenses of the Indicative . The anomaly of the usual ending -μι has now been resolved with the discovery of Arcadian present optative first singular έξελαύνοια, which shows the original secondary active ending previously assumed but hitherto unattested. |
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