ἵ

See also: ῑ, ι, Ι, ί, ΐ, ϊ, and Ϊ

ἵ U+1F35, ἵ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND OXIA Composition: ι [U+03B9] + ◌̔ [U+0314] + ◌́ [U+0301] ← ἴ [U+1F34] Greek Extended ἶ → [U+1F36]

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sih₂. Cognates include Gothic 𐍃𐌹 (si) and Old Irish sí.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hí/ → /i/ → /i/

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

Pronoun

ἵ • (hí)

1. (anaphoric, reflexive) she (nominative of οὗ (hoû))

Inflection

Irregular declension of ἵ; — (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἵ hí
Genitive	—
Dative	ἵν hín
Accusative	—
Vocative	—
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “ἵ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἵ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἵ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 571