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Ancient Greek
Etymology
A conflation of the consonantism of σφεῖς (spheîs, “they”) with the vocalism of νώ (nṓ, “we two”), suffixed with the dual ending -ε.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spʰɔː.é/ → /sɸoˈe/ → /sfoˈe/
Pronoun
σφωέ • (sphōé)
- Epic enclitic third person dual personal pronoun: they two, the two of them, both of them, these two
800 BCE – 600 BCE,
Homer,
Iliad 1.8:
- τίς τ’ ἄρ σφωε θεῶν ἔριδι ξυνέηκε μάχεσθαι;
- tís t’ ár sphōe theôn éridi xunéēke mákhesthai?
- So which one of the gods brought these two together to fight in a quarrel?
Inflection
σφωέ
sphōé
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σφωῐ̈ν
sphōĭ̈n
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σφωῐ̈ν
sphōĭ̈n
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σφωέ
sphōé
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σφωέ
sphōé
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- Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.
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References
- ^ Rix, Helmut (1976) Historische Grammatik des Griechischen: Laut- und Formenlehre (in German), Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, →ISBN, §193, page 180
Further reading
- “σφωέ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σφωέ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963