ποῖ
See also: ποι
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Like the indefinite adverb ποι (poi), a locative adverb from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos + -ι (-i, locative adverb suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pôi̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /py/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /py/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /py/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pi/
Usage notes
This word can be used to introduce direct and indirect questions. ὅποι (hópoi) can introduce indirect questions only.
See also
Ancient Greek correlatives (edit)
Further reading
- “ποῖ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ποῖ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ποῖ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- destination idem, page 217.
- direction idem, page 226.
- whither idem, page 977.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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