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This paper addresses problems in historical morphology and etymology of rregular comparatives in Ancient Greek, expanding on the seminal treatment by Leumann 1945 and relying on recent work on Indo-European background of this morphological class (Widmer 2004; Rau 2014). The paper discusses the following topics: 1) etymologies of ἀμείνων, χείρων, ἥττων / ἥκιστα, λῴων / λῷστος, and ῥᾴδιος / ῥᾴων / ῥᾷστος; 2) extensive analogical changes that affected comparative stems in Ancient Greek; 3) some outstanding questions of historical phonology and morphology of this nominal class: the source of double -ll- in καλλῑ́ων and κάλλιστος; the relationship between χερείων, χέρεια, χέρηες and other forms of ‘worse’; the relationship between ἀρείων and Myc. a-ro2-a /aryo(h)a/.