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[*] 464. SECONDARY ENDINGS OF THE ACTIVE (IND. AND OPT.)The optative usually has the endings of the secondary tenses of the indicative. a. 1 Sing.—-ν stands for μ (133 c), cp. ἔφερο-ν, Skt. ábhara-m. After a consonant μ (sonant nasal, 20 b, 35 c) became α: ἔλυ_σα for ἐλυ_ςṃ, Epic ἦα was for η᾽（ς）α from ἠςṃ. In the pluperfect -η is from ε-α (467). -ν is found in the optative when the mood suffix is -ιη-; elsewhere the optative has -μι.
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