ποῖ
See also: ποι
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Like the indefinite adverb ποι (poi), a locative adverb from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos + -ι (-i, locative adverb suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pôi̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /py/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /py/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /py/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pi/
Adverb
ποῖ • (poî) (interrogative adverb)
- whither? whereto? where?
- ποῖ δὴ πορεύῃ καὶ πόθεν?
- poî dḕ poreúēi kaì póthen?
- Whither art thou going and whence?
Usage notes
This word can be used to introduce direct and indirect questions. ὅποι (hópoi) can introduce indirect questions only.
See also
Ancient Greek correlatives (edit)
Further reading
- “ποῖ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ποῖ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ποῖ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- destination idem, page 217.
- direction idem, page 226.
- whither idem, page 977.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN