Allen Rogers Benner, Selections from Homer's Iliad, A Short Homeric Grammar, Sounds and Orthography, Initial Digamma

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Full lists of words that once were spelled with digamma, with or without other lost consonants, may be found in large grammars and lexicons. The following illustrative list is selected from instances in A and B; the words are grouped in order of roots or stems:

1. (“ἐ”）“ϝάνδανε, ἥνδανε” (A 24), “ϝηδύ” (B 270). The original spelling was “σϝαδ-”: cf. Lat. suāvis, Eng. ‘sweet.’
2. “ϝάλις” (B 90).
3. “ϝάναξ” (A 7), “ϝανάσσεις” (A 38).
4. “ϝάστυ” (B 803). Cf. Lat. Vesta(?).
5. “ϝιϝάχω”: “ϝηχήεσσα” (A 157).
6. “ϝε” (A 406), “ϝοι” (A 104), “ϝεθεν” (A 114), etc., pronoun of third person; “ϝῇσιν” (A 333), etc., from “ϝός”, possessive pronoun of third person; also “ἑϝοῖσι” (A 83), etc., from “ἑϝός”. There were original forms in “σϝ-”: cf. Lat. suus.
7. “ϝειαρινῇ” (B 471) for “ϝεαρινῇ. ϝέαρ”=Lat. vēr.
8. “ϝέθνεα” (B 87).
9. “ϝείκοσι” (B 748), “ἐϝείκοσιν” (A 309), Lat. vīgintī.
10. “ϝέκαθεν”: “ϝεκα-” “τηβελέτα_ο” (A 75), etc.
11. “ϝέκαστα” (A 550).
12. “ϝεκών”: “ἀ-ϝέκοντος” (A 301).
13. “ϝέλπομαι”: “ἐπι-ϝέλπεο” (A 545), “ἐϝέλδωρ” (A 41). Cf. Lat. voluptās, etc.
14. “ϝείλω”: “ϝέλσαι” (A 409).
15. “ϝελίσσω”: “ϝελικώπιδα” (A 98), “ἀμφι-ϝελίσσα_ς” (B 165).
16. “ϝειπέ” (A 85), “προσέϝειπεν” (A 105), “ϝέπος” (A 108). Cf. Lat. vōx, etc.
17. “ϝείρω”: “ϝερέω” (A 204). Cf. Lat. verbum, Eng. ‘word.’
18. “ϝέργα” (A 115). Cf. Eng. ‘work.’
19. “ϝερυσσάμενος” (A 190).
20. “ϝέννυ_μι”: “ἐπι-ϝειμένε” (A 149), “ϝείματα” (B 261) for “ϝεσ-ματα”. Cf. Lat. vestiō, vestis, Eng. ‘wear.’
21. “ϝῖφι” (A 38). Cf. Lat. vī.
22. “ϝι?εμαι”, ‘be eager,’ ‘press on’; “ϝι_εμένων” (B 154), not to be confused with forms of “ἵημι”.
23. “ϝιδών” (A 148). “ϝοῖσθα” (A 85), “ϝίδμεν” (A 124), “ϝιδυίῃ” (A 365). “ϝείσαιτο” (B 215), “ἐϝεισάμενος” (B 22). Cf. Lat. videō, Eng. ‘wit.’
24. “ϝέϝοικεν” (A 119), “ϝεϝοικώς” (A 47), (“ἐ”）“ϝεϝίκτην” (A 104), and various compounds (A 97, 131, 547).
25. “ϝι?λιον” (B 216).
26. “ϝῖρις” (B 786).
27. “ϝῖσον” (A 163), “ἐϝίσα_ς” (A 306).
28. “ϝοίκῳ” (A 30), “ϝοῖκόνδε” (A 606). Cf. Lat. vīcus, Eng. ‘wick’ (War-wick).
29. “ϝοῖνον” (A 462), “ϝοίνοπα” (A 350). Cf. Lat. vīnum, Eng. ‘wine.’

Selections from Homer's Iliad, with an introduction, notes, a short Homeric grammar, and a vocabulary. Allen Rogers Benner. New York. Irvington Publishers, Inc. 1903.

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