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Headword:
Ἦ
Adler number: eta,4
Translated headword: I was
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Used for
ἦν ["I was"] without the nu. "Just as I learned when I was a boy". [So says]
Aristophanes in
Birds.[1] Also in
Lysistrata: "I was ten years old".[2] [Also] used for
ἔα , [which becomes]
ἦ by contraction.[3]
Ἦ: χωρὶς τοῦ ν ἀντὶ τοῦ ἦν. ἀλλ' οἷάπερ αὐτὸς ἔμαθον ὅτε παῖς ἦ. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἔα. Ἀριστοφάνης Ὄρνισι. καὶ ἐν Λυσιστράτῃ: ἦ δεκέτις. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἔα, κατὰ συναίρεσιν ἦ.
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Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 4 December 1999@16:59:01.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (modified notes; added keyword; cosmetics) on 28 May 2001@08:45:26.
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