κε

κε

Grammatical information: pcle

Meaning: modal part. = IA., Aeol. Cypr.; Arc. ἄν.

Other forms: κεν (Hom.); κα (Dor.; poet. κᾱ)

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [??] *ken, kn̥ modal pcle.

Etymology: With κα agrees Russ. -ko (after dat. of personal pronouns and after imperative), beside which -ka = κᾱ. With κα : κε cf. γα : γε. The final nasal in κεν can be explained as ion. ν ἐφελκυστικόν; genetic connexion with the underlining Skt. kám and the Slav. preposition kъ (both from IE. *kom) is not believable in spite of the groups nú kam : νύ κεν. One connects κεν zero grade with κα before consonant, καν (Arcadian) before vowel; κε could be remade after κα (Palmer in A Companion to Homer 90-92. οὐ καν may have been changed to οὐκ ἄν - Details in Schwyzer-Debrunner 568f.; on the use also Gonda Moods 135ff. See Forbes, Glotta 37 (1958) 179-182 and Lee, Am. J. Ph. 98 (1967) 45-56.

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