81 D. 1. Hom. has many cases of doubled liquids and nasals: ἔλλαβε took, ἄλληκτος unceasing, ἄμμορος without lot in, φιλομμειδής fond of smiles, ἀγάννιφος very snowy, ἀργεννός white, ἔννεπε relate. These forms are due to the assimilation of σ and λ, μ, or ν. Thus, ἀγάννιφος is from ἀγα-σνφος, cp. sn in snow.
2. Doubled stops: ὅττι that (σϜοδ-τι), ὁππότε as (σϜοδ-ιτ), ὁππότε as (σϜοδ-ποτε), ἔδδεισε feared (ἐδϜεισε).
3. σσ in μέσσος middle (for μεθι ̯οςmedius, 114), ὀπίσσω backward, in the datives of σ -stems, as ἔπεσσι (250 D. 2), and in verbs with stems in σ(τρέσσε).
4. One of these doubled consonants may be dropped without lengthening the preceding vowel: Ὀδυσεύς from Ὀδυσσεύς, μέσος, ὀπίσω. So in Ἀχιλεύς from Ἀχιλλεύς. On δδ, ββ, see 75 D. Aeolic has many doubled consonants due to assimilation (37 D. 3).
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