-θι
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi. Doublet of -θεν (-then). Possibly a doublet of -θα (-tha) and -σε (-se).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰi/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰi/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θi/
Suffix edit
- Added to nouns to form adverbs of location: at, in, on
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 342
- “-θι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press