332. Some liquid and mute verbs make a perfect active system without -κ-, with the tense suffix -α- (indicative), generally with a change of vowel or consonant in the stem, often with intransitive or present meaning. Thus φαίνω (φαν-, show) besides the κα- perfect πέ-φαγκα (have shown), makes πέ-φην-α (have appeared); κτείνω (κτεν-, κτον-, kill) makes ἐ-κτον-α (have killed; in prose always ἀπ-έκτονα); ἐγείρω (ἐγερ-, waken), makes ἐγρ-ήγορ-α (am awake; Attic reduplication, § 291.c); so also ἀκούω (ἀκου-, hear), ἀκ-ήκο-α (for ἀκ- ήκοϝ-α, have heard, § 27).
333. The inflection is like that of the κα- perfect (synopsis, § 336).
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