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In ancient Greek grammar, movable nu, movable N or ephelcystic nu (Ancient Greek: νῦ ἐφελκυστικόν nû ephelkustikón, literally "nu dragged onto" or "attracted to") is a letter nu (written ν; the Greek equivalent of the letter n) placed on the end of some grammatical forms in Attic or Ionic Greek. It is used to avoid two vowels in a row (hiatus) and to create a long syllable in poetic meter.

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Movable nu

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ancient Greek grammar, movable nu, movable N or ephelcystic nu (Ancient Greek: νῦ ἐφελκυστικόν ephelkustikón, literally "nu dragged onto" or "attracted...

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Attic Greek

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→ Attic histamen — Cretan istamen "we stand" Attic-Ionic places an n (movable nu) at the end of some words that would ordinarily end in a vowel, if the...

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Ancient Greek grammar

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Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory lengthening Spurious diphthongs v t e...

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Vowel hiatus

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long vowel before a short vowel in hiatus. Diphthong Synaeresis Elision Movable nu "diaeresis". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University...

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Ancient Greek verbs

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Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory lengthening Spurious diphthongs v t e...

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Sandhi

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(linguistics) Crasis Elision Liaison (French) Linking and intrusive R Movable nu Schiffman, Harold F. (1999). A Reference Grammar of Spoken Tamil. Cambridge...

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Linking and intrusive R

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(diacritic) Hiatus (linguistics) Pausa Liaison (French) Sandhi R-colored vowel Movable nu It is arguable whether or not the /r/ is phonetically part of the onset...

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Ancient Greek nouns

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dative may receive an iota subscript if possible, the accusative receives a nu. However, other nouns in which the cluster arising with the sigma at nominative...

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Ancient Greek accent

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τοι toi 'in fact', (Mostly in Homer:) κε/κεν ke/ken 'it may be', νυ/νυν nu/nun 'now', ῥα rha 'then', θην thēn 'in truth': The pronouns ἐγώ egṓ 'I' and...

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Ancient Greek conditional clauses

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κεν ἔνθʼ ἀπόλοιτο ... Αἰνείας, εἰ μὴ ἄρʼ ὀξὺ νόησε ... Ἀφροδίτη (Iliad) kaí ken énthʼ apóloito ... Aineías, ei mḕ árʼ oxù nóēse ... Aphrodítē "and at...

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Ancient Greek phonology

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Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory lengthening Spurious diphthongs v t e...

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Compensatory lengthening

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Subjunctive Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory lengthening Spurious diphthongs...

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Genitive absolute

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Subjunctive Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory lengthening Spurious diphthongs...

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Spurious diphthong

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Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory lengthening Spurious diphthongs v t e...

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Codex Ephesinus

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beginning by αρχαι and at the end by τελη. It has some scholia at the margin. Movable nu is rare, and the few errors of itacism are of the common kind. It has...

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NuScale Power

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NuScale Power Corporation is a publicly traded American company that designs and markets small modular reactors (SMRs). It is headquartered in Portland...

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Lectionary 252

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18/24 lines per page. It has breathings and accents; error of itacism, movable nu. The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way. Gregory and de Muralt...

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Minuscule 517

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Gospels. The manuscript has 10 cases of homoeoteleuton, 196 cases of movable nu (often with nouns), and 106 itacisms. The Greek text of the codex is a...

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Minuscule 543

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not required, especially in εξ', and ουκ'.: 30  According tο Scrivener, movable nu occurs 416 times especially with words ειπεν, εστιν. In Matthew 12:7;...

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Minuscule 542

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nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated forms. According tο Scrivener Movable nu occurs only seven times, a hiatus for the lack of it thrice. There are...

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