ἄημι
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἄω (áō)
Etymology
From earlier ἄϝημι (áwēmi), from Proto-Hellenic *awēmi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wḗh₁ti, from the root *h₂weh₁- (“to blow; wind”). Cognates include Old English and English wind, Latin ventus, vannus, Sanskrit वाति (vāti, “to blow”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.ɛː.mi/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.e̝.mi/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.i.mi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.i.mi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.i.mi/
Verb
ἄημι • (áēmi)
- I breathe, blow
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 178A
- 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.81
- 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.688
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Fr. 245
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 8
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 869
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.526
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.5
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.386
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.176
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 6.131
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.440
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 4.9
- 7th-6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Demeter 276
Inflection
Present: ᾰ̓́ημῐ (Poetic)
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | ᾰ̓́ημῐ | ᾰ̓́ησῐ(ν) | ᾰ̓́ητον | ᾰ̓́ητον | ᾰ̓́εισῐ(ν) | |||||||
| subjunctive | |||||||||||||
| optative | |||||||||||||
| imperative | ᾰ̓ήτω | ||||||||||||
| middle/ passive | indicative | ᾰ̓́ηται | |||||||||||
| subjunctive | |||||||||||||
| optative | |||||||||||||
| imperative | |||||||||||||
| active | middle/passive | ||||||||||||
| infinitive | ᾰ̓ῆναι | ||||||||||||
| participle | m | ᾰ̓είς | ᾰ̓ήμενος | ||||||||||
| f | ᾰ̓εῖσᾰ | ᾰ̓ημένη | |||||||||||
| n | ᾰ̓έν | ᾰ̓ήμενον | |||||||||||
| Notes: | Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms are based on conjecture. Use with caution. For more details, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. | ||||||||||||
Imperfect: (Poetic)
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | ᾰ̓́η | |||||||||||
| middle/ passive | indicative | ᾰ̓́ητο | |||||||||||
| Notes: | Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms are based on conjecture. Use with caution. For more details, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- ἀκρᾱής (akrāḗs)
- ἀλιᾱής (aliāḗs)
- δῐάημῐ (diáēmi)
- δῠσᾱής (dusāḗs)
- εὐᾱής (euāḗs)
- ζᾱής (zāḗs)
- πολῠᾱής (poluāḗs)
- ὑπερᾱής (huperāḗs)
Related terms
- ἄελλᾰ (áella)
- ἄημᾰ (áēma)
- ἀήρ (aḗr)
- ἄησῐς (áēsis)
- ἀήσῠρος (aḗsuros)
- ἀητέομαι (aētéomai)
- ἀήτη (aḗtē)
- ἀήτης (aḗtēs)
- ἀΐσθω (aḯsthō)
- ἀϋτμή (aütmḗ)
References
- “ἄημι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄημι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄημι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄημι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄημι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄημι in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- “ἄημι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Encyclopedia Papyrus-Larousse (1963)