Optative: εἰμί

47.18 For example, the present optative of εἰμί (verb stem: ἐσ-) uses –ιη– as its optative marker, as seen below. Note that the original forms (e.g. ἐσ–ιη–ν) have lost their intervocalic sigma (S 770, G 55).

(S 768, G 384)