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[333] συναντήτην is one of the curious group of forms, chiefly duals and infinitives in “-μεναι” of verbs in “-αω” and “-εω”, which have η instead of “α_” (from “αε”) or ει (from “εε”): “συλήτην, προσαυδήτην, φοιτήτην, ἀρήμεναι, γοήμεναι, πεινήμεναι”: “ἀπειλήτην, ὁμαρτήτην, καλήμεναι, πενθήμεναι, φορήμεναι, φιλήμεναι, ποθήμεναι, ἀλιτήμενος, ὅρηαι” (14. 343). Whether these are originally nonthematic, as Brugmann holds (M. U. 1. 86, Grundr. II. 953, 963), or arise from pre-Hellenic contraction of aje, eje (as Wackernagel, K. Z. xxvii. 84-88), can hardly be determined. In any case there seems to be no reason for regarding them as derived from Aeolic: especially as in that dialect the dual was lost at an early period.

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