ἤ

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ἤ	U+1F24, ἤ GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH PSILI AND OXIA

Composition:

η [U+03B7] + ◌̓ [U+0313] + ◌́ [U+0301]

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἠέ (ēé) — Epic

Etymology

From the Proto-Hellenic *ēwe, from Proto-Indo-European *-wē (“or”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɛ̌ː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i/

Conjunction

ἤ • (ḗ)

or
than, as (in a comparative construction)

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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