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The Attic declension is a group of second-declension nouns and adjectives in the Attic dialect of Ancient Greek, all of whose endings have long vowels. In contrast, normal second-declension nouns have some short vowels and some long vowels. This declension is called Attic because in other dialects, including Ionic and Koine, the nouns are declined normally. ==History== In Proto-Greek, Attic-declension nouns had long ᾱ ''ā'' and digamma (ϝ ''w'') before the endings. The Doric dialect preserved the ᾱ, but lost the digamma by the classical period. In the Aeolic dialect, the digamma was retained as upsilon (υ ''u''). In the Ionic dialect, the ᾱ changed to long η ''ē''. In Attic, η was shortened to ε ''e'' and, if possible, the vowel of the ending was lengthened to ω ''ō'' or (if it was a diphthong with iota) ῳ ''ōi''. *Doric νᾱός (Aeolic ναῦος) → Ionic νηός → Attic νεώς "temple" *:nāós (naûos) → nēós → (unicode:neṓs) *νηοῦ → νεώ (genitive) *:nēoû → (unicode:neṓ) *νηῷ → νεῴ (dative) *:nēōî → neōí The shortening and lengthening was caused by quantitative metathesis, the switching of vowel lengths. In the forms where there is no lengthening, the change is simply vowel shortening. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Attic declension」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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