-θι

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi. Doublet of -θεν (-then). Possibly a doublet of -θα (-tha) and -σε (-se).

Pronunciation

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

Suffix

-θῐ • (-thi) (Epic, poetic)

Added to nouns to form adverbs of location: at, in, on

Derived terms

Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -θι

References

Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 342
“-θι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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