Notes on modern Greek

Folk adage: ο ήλιος τρέφει τα παιδιά και το κρασί τον γέροντα τον κάνει παλικάρι.

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Spoken contraction of the third-person past tense of the verb ‘be’ ‘ην᾽τος’ must derive from ἦν οὗτος and therefore must be quite old.