GREK 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Great Vowel Shift, Greek Dark Ages, Genitive Case
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Shelmerdine, introduction to greek (second edition, november 2011 printing) The full vocabulary entry for each noun gives its nominative and genitive singular case endings plus the nominative definite article. 1 first declension nouns are also referred to as nouns of the alpha declension because their stem originally ended in a long alpha to find the stem, shelmerdine says (on p . 14), remove the genitive singular ending whatever is left is the stem however, have a look at her nouns and charts on pp. Under endings (in the right column) she gives eta or alpha + sigma for the genitive singular. If you remove that ending to find the stems of any of these nouns, you do not have a noun ending with a long alpha (or its variants: eta or short alpha). You have instead a form ending with a consonant.
