From: G&P
Message: 62278
Date: 2008-12-23
> Doric-looking
<tetma:kei> and a few similar forms used by
>Archimedes and
several examples of <a(:)> in the conjugation of
><tme:go:>.
They are so few that they could be hyper-Doricisms. LIV has
>*temh1-, at any
rate.
For at least one of these “Doric” forms, (etma:ksa at Theocritus 8:24) the text is in doubt, and the long a is restored largely because it was expected in a Doric text. So the status of these Doric forms is not always clear. Secondly, Homer’s temei is more difficult to explain from *temh2 than from *temh1.
Peter