- ἐγω
- ἐγωGrammatical information: pers. pron.Meaning: `I'.Other forms: Lesb. ep. Dor. also ἐγών, Lac. Tarent. ἐγώνη, Boeot. ἰώ(ν), ἰώνει (ἱ-?)Origin: IE [Indo-European] [291] *h₁eg- + e\/oH, -h₁-om `I'Etymology: Beside ἐγώ = Lat. egō we find Venet. eχo (length of the -o uncertain), Lat. egŏ with secondarily short final vowel, as in the German. forms, e. g. UrN. ek (but see below); no vocalic auslaut also in Balt., Armen. and Hitt. forms: OLith. eš, Arm. es, Hitt. uk (in Armen. -ō̆ may have been lost). - In Indo-Iranian and Slavic forms in IE -ŏm, e. g. Skt. ahám, OP adam, OCS azъ (\< *ēg though Winter-Kortlandt); enclitic UrN. -(i)ka (like proclitic ek, ik?) perh. from IE *eǵŏm. The varying *eǵō, *eǵŏm after the verbal endings 1. pers. -ō (primary), -ŏm (secondary)?; or is -ŏm a particle which is frequent in Old Indic (tuv-ám `thou' etc.). Skt. has *h₁egh₁-om, which explains the aspiration. - Gr. ἐγών a compromise between -ō and -om (or after ἔγνων, *ἔδων etc.?); in ἐγών-η (ἐγώ-νη? cf. τύνη) -νη is a deictic element, as in ἔγω-γε. - See Schwyzer 602 and 606; Pok. 291; also Brandenstein Μνήμης χάριν 1, 52. - S. ἐμέ.Page in Frisk: 1,441
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