- ἐκεῖ
- ἐκεῖGrammatical information: adv.Meaning: `there, to there' (Hdt.)Other forms: κεῖ (Archil., Herod.), κῆ (Sapph.), an old instr. From there (ἐ)κεῖθι, κῆθι `id.', (ἐ)κεῖθεν `from there', (ἐ)κεῖσεOrigin: IE [Indo-European] [609] *(h₁)e-ḱe(i)- `there'Etymology: Ending as in πεῖ, πῆ `where?', τεῖ-δε, τῆ-δε `here' etc. (Schwyzer 549f.) and like these prob. an old locative . The basis is a deictic particle, IE *ḱe, *ḱi, seen e.g. in Lat. cĕ-do, hi-c, ci-s and with pronomin. function in Hitt. ki `this', Lith. šì-s `this' etc. (s. W.-Hofmann s. -ce; s. also τήμερον); the 3rd person deixis must then be a Greek innovation _(cf. on ἐκεῖνος). The initial ἐ- (cf. ἐ-κεῖνος, ἐ-χθές) too is an inherited demonstrative particle: Oskc. e-tanto `tanta', Russ. é-tot `this', Skt. a-sáu `that' (s. οὗτος; Pok. 283f.).Page in Frisk: 1,475-476
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.