nouns from Ancient Greek "-" (; Pontic ). Preservation of the termination of feminine compound adjectives in The declension of masculine nouns from singular, nominative termination "" to genitive The ancient accenting of nouns in vocative form: Conjugation of verbs The second aorist form in The middle voice verb termination in . The passive voice aorist termination in (anc. ): etc. The imperative form of passive aorist in (anc The sporadic use of infinitives Pontic ("is") from Koine idiomatic form (standard Ancient Greek ), compare the Biblical form ("there is"), Modern Greek ine () Lexicology The sporadic use of in the place of : Pontic (; "ours") from Ancient Greek in contrast to Modern Greek Comparison with Ancient Greek 1. Attachment of the /e/ sound to the ancient infinitive suffix (in Trapezountiac Pontic) {| |- | Pontic || Ancient |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |} 2. Preservation of the Ancient infinitive suffix {| |- | Pontic || Ancient |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |} 3. Ancient first aorist infinitive suffix -αι has been replaced by second aorist suffix -ειν {| |- | Pontic || Ancient |- | || |- | || |} 4. Attachment of the /e/ sound to the ancient aorist infinitive suffix 5. Same aorist suffix was also the regular perfect suffix) {| |- | Pontic || Ancient |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |- | || |} 6. Ancient Greek infinitive > Pontic Greek infinitive {| |- | Pontic || Ancient |- | || ἐλθεῖν |} See also Mariupolitan Greek Caucasus Greeks Cappadocian Greek Further reading Notes Bibliography Berikashvili, Svetlana. 2017. Morphological aspects of Pontic Greek spoken in Georgia. LINCOM GmbH. Özhan Öztürk, Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük. 2 Cilt. Heyamola Yayıncılık. İstanbul, 2005. Τομπαΐδης, Δ.Ε. 1988. Η Ποντιακή Διάλεκτος. Αθήνα: Αρχείον Πόντου. (Tompaidis, D.E. 1988. The Pontic Dialect. Athens: Archeion Pontou.) Τομπαΐδης, Δ.Ε. ϗ Συμεωνίδης, Χ.Π. 2002. Συμπλήρωμα στο Ιστορικόν Λεξικόν της Ποντικής Διαλέκτου του Α.Α. Παπαδόπουλου. Αθήνα: Αρχείον Πόντου. (Tompaidis, D.E. and Simeonidis, C.P. 2002. Additions to the Historical Lexicon of the Pontic Dialect of