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    Figure 1:   A tongue that I quickly sketched, and then edited in photoshop. The Ancient-Greek 1st-and-2nd-declension adjective: πολύς, πολλή, πολύ , or, when transliterated: ‘polús, pollḗ, polú,’ means: ‘many,’ .  The Ancient-Greek 1 st -declension feminine noun: ἡ γλῶσσα, τῆϛ γλώσσης, or, when transliterated: ‘hē glȭssa, tē̃s glṓssēs’ means: ‘the tongue’ .  In the Attic dialect, the spelling of: ‘hē glȭssa,’ is: ἡ γλῶττα, τῆϛ γλώττης , or, when transliterated: ‘hē glȭtta, tē̃s glṓttēs’ . We derive our English noun: ‘polyglot,’ , which is a speaker of many languages, from our combining of the Ancient-Greek adjective: ‘polús,’ which means: ‘many’ , with the Ancient-Greek noun: ‘glȭtta’ , which means: ‘tongue’ .

A Rule for the Accentuation of Ancient Greek. Figure 1:   A Greek flag that I coded in SVG. Figure 2:   What the above image looks like when exported as a PNG file You may view the code, and the vector image itself, for the above depicted Greek flag at my CodePen account. Figure 3:   ἡ λύρα Genitive: τῆς λύρᾱς or: hē lúra Genitive: tē̃s lúrās. 1st-declension feminine noun. The lyre. The lyre is very often used to symbolise Ancient Greece. Nouns are Persistent , whereas Verbs are recessive: Nouns are Persistent [1] : When it comes to Ancien...