ἕ

See also: Ὲ; ἔ; ἑ; ε; Ε; ,ε; ε-; and Appendix:Variations of "e"

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hé/ → /e/ → /e/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hé/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)e/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e/

Etymology

PIE word
*swé

Apparently from Proto-Hellenic *hwe = ϝ̔ε, from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“reflexive pronoun”).

Pronoun

ἕ • (hé)

1. accusative of οὗ (hoû): him

References

• “ἕ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἕ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἕ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἕ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἕ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• 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