ὑμεῖς
Ancient Greek
| case | 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 | σφωΐτερος | ῡ̔μέτερος | |
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *usmé, with regular rough breathing ῾ (h) before initial υ (u).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hyː.mêːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)yˈmis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /yˈmis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /yˈmis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈmis/
Pronoun
ῡ̔μεῖς • (hūmeîs)
Usage notes
The singular and dual are σύ (sú) and σφώ (sphṓ).
Inflection
| Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ῡ̔μεῖς / ῠ̓́μμες hūmeîs / ŭ́mmes | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | ῡ̔μείων / ῡ̔μέων hūmeíōn / hūméōn | ||||||||||||
| Dative | ῡ̔μῖν / ῠ̓́μμῐ / ῠ̓́μμῐν hūmîn / ŭ́mmĭ(n) | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | ῡ̔μέᾰς / ῠ̓́μμε hūméăs / ŭ́mme | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | ῡ̔μεῖς / ῠ̓́μμες hūmeîs / ŭ́mmes | ||||||||||||
| Notes: |
| ||||||||||||
| Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ῡ̔μές / ῡ̔μέν hūmés / hūmén | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | ῡ̔μέων / ῡ̔μῶν hūméōn / hūmôn | ||||||||||||
| Dative | ῡ̔μῐ́ν / ὗμῐν† hūmĭ́n / hûmĭn† | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | ῡ̔μέ hūmé | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | ῡ̔μές / ῡ̔μέν hūmés / hūmén | ||||||||||||
| Notes: |
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| Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | οὐμές oumés | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | οὐμίων oumíōn | ||||||||||||
| Dative | οὐμίν oumín | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | οὐμέ oumé | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | οὐμές oumés | ||||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Related terms
Descendants
- Tsakonian: εμού (emoú)
References
- “σύ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὑμεῖς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὑμεῖς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὑμεῖς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G5210 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 325, 325 D
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN