ἤ
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Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom the Proto-Hellenic *ēwe, from Proto-Indo-European *-wē (“or”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /i/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /i/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i/
Conjunction
editἤ • (ḗ)
Usage notes
editThe pair ἤ... ἦ (ḗ... ê) means ‘either... or...’ or ‘whether... or...’.
Derived terms
edit- ἤτοι (ḗtoi)
Descendants
edit- Greek: ή (í)
References
edit- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἤ 4”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 507
Further reading
edit- “ἤ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἤ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἤ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἤ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἤ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἤ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2228 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
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