ἦ

See also: ἡ, ἤ, ἥ, ᾖ, ᾗ, and Appendix:Variations of "h"

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̂ː/ → /i/ → /i/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɛ̂ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i/

Verb

ἦ • (ê)

1. first-person singular imperfect of εἰμί (eimí): I was
2. third-person singular imperfect/aorist of ἠμί (ēmí): (s)he said

Conjunction

ἦ • (ê)

1. or

Usage notes

The pair ἤ... ἦ (ḗ... ê) means ‘either... or...’ or ‘whether... or...’.

Alternative forms

• ἦε (êe) — Epic

Further reading

• “ἦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἦ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἦ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἦ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἦ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2229 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible