ἑ

ἕ, ἑ

Grammatical information: refl. pron.

Meaning: `se', ep. also `eum, eam, id', 3. pers. sing. acc. of the reflexive and (enclitic) anaphoric pronoun; (pl. see σφε)

Other forms: Lesb. Ϝε, Pamph. Ϝhε, ep. auch ἑέ; gen. οὗ (οὑ), ep. ἕο (εἷο), εὗ (ἑο, εὑ), ἕθεν, Lesb. Ϝέθεν, Locr. Ϝέος; dat. (and gen.; Schwyzer-Debrunner 189 m. Lit.; cf. Latte Glotta 35, 296) οἷ (οἱ), ep. also ἑοῖ, Lesb. etc. Ϝοῖ, Cret. (Gortyn) etc. Ϝιν, Boeot. (Korinna) ἑίν.

Derivatives: From it the possessive ὅς, ep. also ἑός, Dor. etc.Ϝός `suus, own' (also referring to 1. and 2. pers.), `eius'.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [282] *se, su̯e `himself'

Etymology: The ep. forms ἑ, εὑ, ἕθεν, οἱ can, if there is no trace of digamma (Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 146ff.), go back to an IE reflexive stem *se-, seen in Lat. sē, OCS sę `sē', Germ., e. g. Goth. si-k; with οἱ \< *soi = OP šay, Av. hē, Prakr. se; ἑο aus *se-so, cf. τέο from τίς (s. v.). It is now maintained that IE only had *su̯e, Petit *Swe en grec ancien 1999, 126-8. Beside it we find Ϝhε, Ϝοῖ \< *su̯e, *su̯oi = Skt. sva- `himself', only in derivations and in compounds, e. g. sva-taḥ `from himself, of his own' (cf. ἐτός), sva-já- `born from himself'; a disyllabic (full grade) variant seems found in ἑέ \< *seu̯e. - Adjectivized *su̯e, *seu̯e gave the possessive *su̯o-s, *seu̯o-s, which gave Ϝός, ἑός = Skt. svá- `suus', OLat. sovos \> Lat. suus. - Further see Schwyzer 600ff. (Strange idea in Szemerényi, Gnomon 43(1971) 665f. that *su̯e indicated the extended family.) Cf. ἑαυτοῦ, ἑκάς, ἕκαστος, σφε und σύ.

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