Optative mood

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The optative mood is a grammatical mood that indicates a wish or hope. It is similar to the cohortative mood.

Greek (Ancient and to some extent Koine), Albanian, Georgian, Sanskrit, and Turkish are examples of languages with an optative mood.

[edit] Optative in Ancient Greek

Gordon M. Messing attests: In dealing with the endings of the optative mood, Herbert Weir Smyth merely noted without comment that the first person singular ending except after -ιη- was -μι, despite his previous statement that the optative usually has the endings of the secondary tenses of the indicative. The anomaly of the usual ending -μι has now been resolved with the discovery of Arcadian present optative first singular έξελαύνοια, which shows the original secondary active ending previously assumed but hitherto unattested.

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