1. αι · ai — Beekes
The corpus record
αἴ
ai
ἡ ει and (vice versa) et/ at av / ev, ὦ ev / av οι / v, ov ov ἐν, Ol, ὦ All this
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Where it lives
- Odyssey 22 · 2.53/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
- Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
- Iliad 10 · 0.9/10k
- Republic 4 · 0.45/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
2. ΑΙ · AI — Beekes
3. αἴ · ai — Chantraine
4. αἱ · hai — Chantraine
5. ΑἹ · Hai — Chantraine
6. αἰ · ai — Chantraine
7. αἱ · hai — Frisk
8. αἰ · ai — LSJ
if, Epich. 55, 170, before a vowel αἰκ Id. 21, Sophr. 25:—in Hom. only αἴ κε or κεν, if only, so that, always c. subj., exc. in or. obliq., as Il. 7.387; Dor. αἴκᾱ Epich. 35, Theoc. 1.4, al.
αἲ γάρ (with accent), Ep. for εἰ γάρ, O that! would that! c. opt., Il. 7.132, al., cf. Hdt. 1.27; once c. inf., αἲ γάρ . . παῖδά τʼ ἐμὴν ἐχέμεν καὶ ἐμὸς γαμβρὸς καλέεσθαι Od. 7.311.—Cf. αἴθε.
9. αἴ · ai — LSJ
interj. of astonishment or grief:—αἲ τάλαν Ar. Pl. 706, cf. Min. Oxy. 413.73: c. acc., αἲ τὸν Ἄδωνιν Bion 1.32; freq. doubled αἰαῖ (Hdn.Gr. 2.933), Thgn. 1341, B. 5.153, A. Th. 787, Alciphr. Fr. 4: c. gen., αἰαῖ τόλμας E. Hipp. 814 (lyr.), cf. A. Ch. 1007, Alciphr. 3.67, etc.: c. acc., αἰαῖ Ἄδωνιν Ar. Lys. 393, cf. Bion 1.28; αἰαῖ πέτρον ἐκεῖνον AP 7.554 (Phil.), cf. 9.424 (Duris Elait.). [αῐαῑ generally, sometimes αῑαῑ, as A. Th. l.c.]
10. ἀΐ · ai — LSJ
In the wild
- αἲ · ai Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 867–871
- αἲ · ai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.2 (DIORISIS sentence 462)
- αἲ · ai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7362)
- αἲ · ai Euripides, Heracles 348–351
- αἲ · ai Herodotus, Histories 1.27.3 (DIORISIS sentence 170)
- αἲ · ai Iliad 10.536
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. αἴ (scan p. 30; entry #11).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. αἴ (scan pp. 42-43; entry #179).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. αἴ (scan p. 59; entry #172).
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