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Ancient Greek Alternative forms Etymology From Proto-Indo-European *usm- (from *túh₂ ῾ ( h ) before initial υ ( u ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /hyː.mêːs/ → /yˈmis/ → /iˈmis/
Pronoun ῡ̔μεῖς • (hūmeîs )
second person plural personal pronoun ye , you , y'all , you guys Usage notes The singular and dual are σύ ( sú ) and σφώ ( sphṓ ) .
Inflection
ῡ̔μεῖς hūmeîs
ῡ̔μέων hūméōn
ῡ̔μῖν ὗμῐν hūmîn / hûmin†
ῡ̔μέᾰς ῡ̔́μεᾰς hūméas / hū́meas†
ῡ̔μεῖς hūmeîs
Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.
† enclitic
ῡ̔μές ῡ̔μέν hūmés / hūmén
ῡ̔μέων ῡ̔μῶν hūméōn / hūmôn
ῡ̔μῐ́ν ὗμῐν hūmín / hûmin†
ῡ̔μέ hūmé
ῡ̔μές ῡ̔μέν hūmés / hūmén
Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.
† enclitic
οὐμές oumés
οὐμίων oumíōn
οὐμίν oumín
οὐμέ oumé
οὐμές oumés
Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.
Related terms ῡ̔μός ( hūmós ) , ῡ̔μέτερος ( hūméteros , “ second person plural possessive pronoun ” ) Descendants References “σύ Liddell & Scott (1940 ) A Greek–English Lexicon
“ὑμεῖς Autenrieth, Georg (1891 ) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges , New York: Harper and Brothers
ὑμεῖς Bailly, Anatole (1935 ) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français ὑμεῖς Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924 ) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition , Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963 G5210 in Strong, James (1979 ) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible Woodhouse, S. C. (1910 ) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language fruit idem, page 347.ye idem, page 995.Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920 ) “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges , Cambridge: American Book Company, § 325 325 D Sihler, Andrew L. (1995 ) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin , Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN