οὗ
Appearance
See also: ου, -ου, -ού, οὐ, οὔ, οὖ, Ȣ, ᴕ, Appendix:Variations of "ou", and Appendix:Variations of "oy"
Ancient Greek
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hûː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)u/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /u/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /u/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /u/
Etymology 1
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*swé |
Accusative ἕ (hé) apparently from Proto-Hellenic *hwe = ϝέ, from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“reflexive pronoun”).
Alternative forms
[edit]- οὑ (hou) — enclitic
- εἷο (heîo), ἕο (héo), εὗ (heû), ἕθεν (héthen) — Epic
- ἑο (heo), ἑθεν (hethen) — Epic, enclitic
- εὑ (heu) — Epic, Ionic, enclitic, synaeresis
- ἑοῦς (heoûs), ἑοῦ (heoû), ϝέος (wéos), ἕθεν (héthen) — Doric
- ϝέθεν (wéthen) — Aeolic
Pronoun
[edit]οὗ • (hoû)
Usage notes
[edit]For dual and plural forms, see σφωέ (sphōé) and σφεῖς (spheîs).
Inflection
[edit]Irregular declension of —; οὗ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
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Nominative | — | σφεῖς spheîs | |||||||||||
Genitive | οὗ / οὑ† hoû / hou† |
σφῶν sphôn | |||||||||||
Dative | οἷ / οἱ† hoî / hoi† |
σφῐ́σῐ / σφῐ́σῐν sphísi(n) | |||||||||||
Accusative | ἕ / ἑ† hé / he† |
σφᾶς sphâs | |||||||||||
Vocative | — | σφεῖς spheîs | |||||||||||
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Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | — | ||||||||||||
Genitive | εἷο / ἕο / ἑο† / εὗ / εὑ† / ἕθεν / ἑθεν† / ἑοῖο heîo / héo / heo† / heû / heu† / héthen / hethen† / heoîo | ||||||||||||
Dative | ἑοῖ / οἷ / οἱ† heoî / hoî / hoi† | ||||||||||||
Accusative | ἑέ / ἕ / ἑ† / μῐν† / σφε† heé / hé / he† / min† / sphe† | ||||||||||||
Vocative | — | ||||||||||||
Notes: |
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Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | — | ||||||||||||
Genitive | ἑοῦς / ἑοῦ / ϝέος / ἕθεν heoûs / heoû / wéos / héthen | ||||||||||||
Dative | οἷ / οἱ† / ϝῐ́ν / ϝοι† hoî / hoi† / wín / woi† | ||||||||||||
Accusative | ἕ / ϝέ / νῐ́ν hé / wé / nín | ||||||||||||
Vocative | — | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “οὗ, οἷ, ἕ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 325
- Carl Darling Buck, Introduction to the Study of the Greek Dialects, section 118
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 365
Etymology 2
[edit]See ὅς (hós).
Pronoun
[edit]οὗ • (hoû)
Adverb
[edit]οὗ • (hoû) (relative adverb)
- where, when
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 486:
- οὗ Σπερχειὸς ἄρδει πεδίον εὐμενεῖ ποτῷ
- hoû Sperkheiòs árdei pedíon eumeneî potôi
- where the Sphercheus waters the plain with kindly stream.
- οὗ Σπερχειὸς ἄρδει πεδίον εὐμενεῖ ποτῷ
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 486:
- νῦν γὰρ δὴ ἐξ οὗ ἐγένοντο Ἀθηναῖοι ἐς κίνδυνον ἥκουσι
- nûn gàr dḕ ex hoû egénonto Athēnaîoi es kíndunon hḗkousi
- now indeed since when the athenians were born they get to an enormous danger
- νῦν γὰρ δὴ ἐξ οὗ ἐγένοντο Ἀθηναῖοι ἐς κίνδυνον ἥκουσι
See also
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]From ὅς (hós, “his”).
Adjective
[edit]οὗ • (hoû)
Etymology 4
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]οὗ • (hoû)
- second-person singular aorist middle imperative of ἵημι (híēmi)
References
[edit]- “οὗ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οὗ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “οὗ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- οὗ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3757 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.
- where idem, page 975.
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