εἰ
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editProbably 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.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /i/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /i/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /i/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i/
Conjunction
editεἰ • (ei)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “εἰ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 379
Further reading
edit- “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.