Ancient Greek Phonology - Phonotactics

Phonotactics

In Ancient Greek, any vowel may end a word, but the only consonants that may normally end a word are ν, ρ, ς. If a stop ended a word in Proto-Indo-European, this was dropped in Ancient Greek, as in ποίημα (from ποίηματ; compare the genitive singular ποιήματος). Other consonants may end a word, however, when a final vowel is elided before a word beginning in a vowel, as in ἐφ᾿ ἵππῳ (from ἐπὶ ἵππῳ).