εἰ

See also: εἴ and εἶ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• αἰ (ai) — Doric, Epic
• εἴ (eí) — stressed
• εἰκ (eik) — before a word starting with a vowel

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *éy, a locative form of *h₁e (“the”). See its sense, “that”, in ἐπεί (epeí) and compare the history of Latin sī.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eː/ → /i/ → /i/

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

Conjunction

εἰ • (ei)

1. if

Derived terms

• εἴθε (eíthe)
• εἶτα (eîta)
• ἐπεί (epeí)

Further reading

• “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 (2006–2024)
• “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.
  • assuming idem, page 47.
  • grievance idem, page 373.
  • if idem, page 414.
  • intestate idem, page 453.
  • open idem, page 574.
  • spurn idem, page 806.
  • supposing idem, page 841.
  • whether idem, page 975.
  • would that idem, page 991.