Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Pronoun
νώ • (nṓ)
- (first person dual personal pronoun) we two, both of us, us two
-
Hom.,
Od. 4.280–284
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αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ καὶ Τυδεΐδης καὶ δῖος Ὀδυσσεὺς
ἥμενοι ἐν μέσσοισιν ἀκούσαμεν, ὡς ἐβόησας.
νῶϊ μὲν ἀμφοτέρω μενεήναμεν ὁρμηθέντες
ἢ ἐξελθέμεναι ἢ ἔνδοθεν αἶψ' ὑπακοῦσαι·
ἀλλ' Ὀδυσεὺς κατέρῡκε καὶ ἔσχεθεν ῑ̔εμένω περ.- [Menelaus talking to Helen:]
But I and Tydides and divine Odysseus
sat in the middle [of the Trojan horse] and heard [you] when you yelled.
We were both eager and ready to
get out or immediately answer from inside,
but Odysseus restrained and checked us despite our eagerness.
Usage notes
Singular and plural are ἐγώ (egṓ) and ἡμεῖς (hēmeîs).
Inflection
Irregular declension of
νώ;
νῷν (
Attic)
| Case / # |
Dual |
| Nominative |
νώ
|
| Genitive |
νῷν
|
| Dative |
νῷν
|
| Accusative |
νώ
|
| Vocative |
νώ
|
| Notes: |
This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
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Irregular declension of
νῶῐ̈;
νώ;
νῶῐ̈ν (
Epic)
| Case / # |
Dual |
| Nominative |
νῶῐ̈; νώ
|
| Genitive |
νῶῐ̈ν
|
| Dative |
νῶῐ̈ν
|
| Accusative |
νῶῐ̈; νώ
|
| Vocative |
νῶῐ̈; νώ
|
| Notes: |
Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.
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References
- ἐγώ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- «νώ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «νώ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Herbert Weir Smyth & Gordon M. Messing, Greek Grammar, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1956, p.90f.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1029