ἤ
See also: Appendix:Variations of "h"
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the Proto-Hellenic *ēwe, from Proto-Indo-European *-wē (“or”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /i/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /i/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i/
Usage notes
The pair ἤ... ἦ (ḗ... ê) means ‘either... or...’ or ‘whether... or...’.
Derived terms
- ἤτοι (ḗtoi)
Descendants
- Greek: ή (í)
References
- “ἤ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἤ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἤ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἤ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἤ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἤ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2228 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
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