Thematic Stem

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In Indo-European linguistics, a thematic stem or vowel stem is a noun or verb stem that ends in a vowel that appears in or otherwise influences the noun or verb's inflectional paradigm. The vowel is called the thematic vowel. The noun or verb is also called thematic. In Latin, nouns of the first, second, fourth, and fifth declensions are considered thematic stems; the first declension has the theme vowel a, the second o, the fourth u, and the fifth e. Stems with i are treated together with athematic stems in the third declension. A similar situation appears in the Latin verb: the first conjugation contains vowel stems with a, the second with e, and the fourth with i. There are no Latin verbs with o or u, and there are very few Latin verbs that are athematic, which is where those verbs that are conjugated with consonant stems would be classified. Greek, by contrast, still preserves a large number of athematic, consonant-stem verbs.

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