δή
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "de"
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- δαί (daí) — after interrogatives, to express wonder or curiosity
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hellenic *dḗ, from Proto-Indo-European *de (“instrumental particle”).[1] See also δέ (dé).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /dɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /de̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ði/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ði/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ði/
Particle
[edit]δή • (dḗ) (discourse particle)
- Adds temporal specificity: now, already
- Adds emphasis: truly, !, indeed, in truth
- Adds specificity: exactly
- Sometimes ironical: no doubt, of course
- With pronouns: of all people
Usage notes
[edit]δή (dḗ) is a post-positive word, meaning that it will usually (but not always) be the second word in a clause.
Conjunction
[edit]δή • (dḗ)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “δή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 322
Further reading
[edit]- “δή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- δή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “δή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- δή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- δή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “δή”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1211 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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