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σύ
σύ
See also: 'σύ
Ancient Greek
| case | second person | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | ||
| str. | encl. | str. | str. | |
| nominative | σύ | σφώ, σφῶϊ | ῡ̔μεῖς | |
| genitive | σοῦ | σου | σφῷν | ῡ̔μῶν |
| dative | σοί | σοι | σφῷν | ῡ̔μῖν |
| accusative | σέ | σε | σφώ, σφῶϊ | ῡ̔μᾶς |
| adjective | σός | ῡ̔μέτερος | ||
Alternative forms
Pronoun
σῠ́ • (sú)
Usage notes
Dual and plural are σφώ (sphṓ) and ῡ̔μεῖς (hūmeîs)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τῠ́, τῡ́νη | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τέος, τεοῦς, τιοῦς, τεῦς, τέο, τεῦ, τεοῦ, τεοῖο, τοι†, τεος†, τίω, τίως, τίος | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῐ́ν, τῑ́νη | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τέ, τῐ́ν, τῠ́, τῠ† | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | - | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.
†enclitic |
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Related terms
- σός (sós, “second person singular possessive adjective”)
Descendants
- Greek: εσύ (esý)
References
- σύ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- «σύ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «σύ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “G4771”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- you idem, page 997.
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 325
- William W. Goodwin, A Greek Grammar. Revised and enlarged, Boston, 1900, p.82f.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill