ἀμφί
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Hellenic *ampʰí, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”). Beekes argues that it originated as a case form of *h₂ent- (“face”), which is the source of ἀντί (antí).[1]
Cognate with Old English ymb-, Middle English umbe, Latin ambi-, Sanskrit अभि (abhí, “towards, over, upon”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (abiy, “towards, against, upon”), Old High German umbi, Old Irish imb (“around”) and the first part of Old Armenian ամբ-ողջ (amb-ołǰ, “whole”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /am.pʰí/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /amˈpʰi/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /amˈɸi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /amˈfi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /amˈfi/
Preposition
editἀμφί • (amphí) (governs the genitive, dative, and accusative)
- [with genitive]
- for, for the sake of
- about, concerning
- around
- [with dative]
- [with accusative]
References
edit- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀμφί”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 94-5
Further reading
edit- “ἀμφί”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀμφί”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἀμφί”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀμφί in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀμφί in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἀμφί in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἀμφί”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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