Morphology
Contracted or vowel-stem verbs that are thematic in Attic-Ionic are often athematic (-mi) in Aeolic.
- Ionic philéō, Attic philô ~ Aeolic phílēmi "I love"
The same is also found in Irish, where this selection has been generalized, i.e. -im.
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