ἦ
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɛ̂ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /i/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /i/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i/
Verb
[edit]ἦ • (ê)
- first-person singular imperfect of εἰμί (eimí): I was
- third-person singular imperfect/aorist of ἠμί (ēmí): (s)he said
Conjunction
[edit]ἦ • (ê)
Usage notes
[edit]The pair ἤ... ἦ (ḗ... ê) means ‘either... or...’ or ‘whether... or...’.
Alternative forms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ἦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἦ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἦ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἦ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἦ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2229 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible