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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- αἰ (ai) — Doric, Epic
- εἴ (eí) — stressed
- εἰκ (eik) — before a word starting with a vowel
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *éy. See its sense, “that”, in ἐπεί (epeí) and compare the history of Latin sī.
Pronunciation
Conjunction
εἰ • (ei)
- if
Derived terms
References
- “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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.