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 byFurther 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