Greek third-declension nouns with vowel endings
Other Greek nouns whose stems in the earliest Greek (notably Mycenaean) ended in ι (''i'') or υ (''u''), and ''j'' (English consonantal '' y'') or ϝ (digamma; English ''w'') in e-grade, have in later Greek undergone sound changes that markedly distinguish them from run-of-the-mill third-declension nouns. In particular, the stems with j or ϝ lose this sound, and in some cases the preceding vowel is lengthened by compensatory lengthening. In Attic, if there is a short vowel adjacent in the ending, the two vowels switch their lengths by quantitative metathesis. Illustrative of the process is the development of the genitive singular ofFurther reading
For specific information on the third declension as it appears in Latin and Greek, and Morphology_(linguistics)#Paradigms_and_morphosyntax, paradigms of nouns belonging to the different subcategories, see the appropriate sections in