- πόθεν
- πόθενGrammatical information: interr. adv.Meaning: `whence, from where?'Derivatives: ποθέν indef. `frome somewhere' (Il.), Ion. κόθεν (Hdt.). Beside πόθι, ποθί `where?', `somewhere' (ep. Il.); ποῦ, που (Att.), Ion. κοῦ, κου `id.'; ποῖ, ποι `whither?', `to somewhere' (Att.), πόσε `whither?' (Hom.).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [644] *kʷo- `who?'Etymology: Formations from pronominal stem πο-, Ion. κο-, from IE *kʷo- with representatives in most IE languages, e.g. Skt. ká-s `who?', Goth. ƕa-s `id.', Lat. quo-d `what?'. More forms from diff. languages w. lit. in Bq, W.-Hofmann s. quis, quid and quod, WP. 1, 519ff., Pok. 644 f., Mayrhofer s. káḥ etc. -- Here still ποῖος, πόσος, πότε, πότερος; s. also τίς. On the adverbial endings -θεν, -θι, -σε Schwyzer 628 f.; on the frozen caseforms ποῦ, ποῖ (gen. resp. loc.) ibd. 621 f.Page in Frisk: 2,569-570
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.