εἰ
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- αἰ (ai) — Doric, Epic
- εἴ (eí) — stressed
- εἰκ (eik) — before a word starting with a vowel
- ἠ (ē) — Cypriot
Etymology
[edit]Probably from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ey, a locative form of *ís (“this”).[1][2] See its sense, “that”, in ἐπεί (epeí) and compare the history of Latin sī.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /i/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /i/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /i/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i/
Conjunction
[edit]εἰ • (ei)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Dunkel, George E. (2014), Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (in German), volume 2: Lexikon, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, page 186
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “εἰ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 379
Further reading
[edit]- “εἰ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εἰ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “εἰ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- εἰ in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- εἰ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- εἰ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
- “εἰ”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1509 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- εἰ in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.