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Ancient Greek
Etymology From Proto-Hellenic *tú Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ Sanskrit त्वम् ( tvam ) , Latin tū Persian تو ( to ) and Old English þū English thou /s/ was spread to the nominative from oblique forms such as accusative σέ ( sé ) < *twé /s/ is the regular development of Proto-Indo-European *tw- .
Pronunciation
Pronoun σῠ́ • (sú )
second person singular personal pronoun thou , you
Inflection
Irregular declension of
σῠ́ ;
σοῦ (
Attic )
Irregular declension of
σῠ́ ;
σεῖο (
Epic )
σῠ́ τῡ́νη sú / tū́nē
σεῖο σέο σεο σεῦ σευ σέθεν seîo / séo / seo† / seû / seu† / séthen
σοί τοι τεῐ̈́ν soí / toi† / teḯn
σέ σε sé / se†
—
Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.
† enclitic
Irregular declension of
σῠ́ ;
σέο (
Ionic )
σῠ́ sú
σέο σεῦ σευ séo / seû / seu†
σοί τοι soí / toi†
σέ σε sé / se†
—
Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.
† enclitic
σῠ́ sú
σέθεν séthen
σοί τοι soí / toi†
σέ σε sé / se†
—
Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.
† enclitic
τού τούν toú / toún
τεῦς teûs
σοί τοι soí / toi†
σέ σε sé / se†
—
Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.
† enclitic
Derived terms
σός ( sós , “ second person singular possessive adjective ” )
Descendants Byzantine Greek: ἐσύ ( esú )
Greek: εσύ ( esý )
Mariupol Greek: сы ( sy ) , эсы́ ( esý )
Pontic Greek: εσύ ( esý )
Tsakonian: εκιού ( ekioú )
See also
References “σύ Liddell & Scott (1940 ) A Greek–English Lexicon
σύ Bailly, Anatole (1935 ) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français σύ Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924 ) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition , Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963 G4771 in Strong, James (1979 ) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible Woodhouse, S. C. (1910 ) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920 ) “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges , Cambridge: American Book Company, § 325 William W. Goodwin, A Greek Grammar. Revised and enlarged , Boston, 1900, p.82f.
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010 ) Etymological Dictionary of Greek 10 ), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN