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τοι

toi

grandfather

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Where it lives

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What it meant

1. τοι- · toi- — Beekes

τοι-, γεροίταν: πάππον. Κρῆτες ‘grandfather’ (H.) is inverted writing for γερύταν; yepota [n.pl.] ‘old stories’ (Corinn.), if correct, is perhaps after the adjectives in -otoc (see Bechtel 1921, 1: 304). Unclear is yepwvia (H.), see Latte, despite Scheller 1951: 33”. yepwxia (Ar. Lys. 980) is perhaps graphic for Lacon. yepw‘ia (von Fritz AmJPh. 66 (1945): 196f. but see Wackernagel 1916: 2087; also Schwyzer: 218). … — [Beekes, s.v. τοι-, p. 316]

2. τοι · toi — Frisk

τοι (dor. auch τοί) ‘dir’ ep. ion. dor. äol. Dat. sg. (ion. att. σοί) von σύ (s.d.), — and. te. Daraus att. ro: als enklit. Part. etwa “ja, doch, fürwahr’. — Daneben am Satzanfang und orthotoniert τοὶ γάρ, τοιγάρ (ep. poet.), für das Zusammenhang mit 908 τοιϑορύσσω τόλμη dem Demonstr. τὸο- vermutet worden ist; 5. SchwyzerDebrunner 580ff., wo auch über die verstärkten τοιγάρτοι, τοιγαροῦν ebenso wie über τοίνυν, … — [Frisk, s.v. τοι, p. 1879]

3. τοι · toi — LSJ

let me tell you, mark you, look you, surely, look you

let me tell you, mark you, look you (in Engl. we freq. convey the impression by means of emphasis or tone), implying a real or imagined audience, freq. in Hom. and always in speeches (exc. ὃς δή τοι Il. 10.316, Od. 20.289), αἰσχρόν τοι δηρόν τε μένειν κτλ. Il. 2.298; ἀλλʼ ἐφομαρτεῖτε· πλεόνων δέ τοι ἔργον ἄμεινον 12.412 codd.; τοῦτο δέ τοι ἐρέουσα ἔπος . . εἶμι surely I will go, 1.419; ταύτης τοι γενεῆς . . εὔχομαι εἶναι (recapitulating) 6.211 (so at the close of a narrative, Theoc. 11.80); οὗτό

II

in subordinate clauses,

1

temporal and causal, ἐπεί τοι h.Merc. 138, Pi. I. 2.45, S. Tr. 321; freq. ἐπεί τοι καί E. Med. 677, Ar. Ach. 933, Pl. Tht. 142b, etc.; ὅτι τοι Id. R. 343a.

2

conditional, εἴ τοι . . , ἐὰν δέ τοι . . , S. OT 549, 551, Ant. 327; in apodosi, εἰ γὰρ κτενοῦμεν . . , σύ τοι πρώτη θάνοις ἄν Id. El. 582, cf. Il. 22.488.

3

final, ὅπως . . τοι S. El. 1469, cf. Hp. Morb. 2.33.

III

freq. combined with other Particles, ἀλλά τοι Thgn. 656, Pi. P. 3.19, etc.; ἀλλὰ . . τοι A. Pers. 795, Ag. 1304, etc.; γάρ τοι (γάρ A. II.9); γέ τοι (γε 1.5); ἤτοι, καίτοι (v. sub vv.); μέν τοι (μέν B. II.4); μή τοι, οὔ τοι; cf. also τοιγάρ, τοιγάρτοι, τοιγαροῦν, τοίνυν; so in τοι ἄρα, τοι ἆρα, which however are mostly contracted by crasis into τἆρα; as also τοι ἄν into τἄν, μέντοι ἄν into μεντἄν.

B

Position: τοι usually stands early in the sentence (or clause), e.g. Ζεύς ἐστιν αἰθήρ, Ζεὺς δὲ γῆ, Ζεὺς δʼ οὐρανός, Ζεύς τοι τὰ πάντα A. Fr. 70, etc.

2

hence τοι is sts. placed betw. Art. and Subst. or Adj., or betw. Prep. and Subst., τό τ. μέγιστον Pl. Sph. 261c; ἐπί τ. Ἀκράγαντι Pi. O. 2.90, cf. Ar. Ec. 972, etc.; also after Prep. in compd. Verb, ἔκ τ. πέπληγμαι E. Hipp. 934, cf. Or. 1047, Ar. V. 784.

3

τοι repeated, σύ τ. σύ τ. κατηξίωσας S. Ph. 1095 (lyr.).

4. τοί · toi — LSJ

Ep. and poet. for οἱ or οἵ, αἱ or αἵ, nom. pl. of ὁ and ὅ, freq. in Hom. (relat., Od. 3.73, 12.63, more freq. demonstr.), not in Ion. Prose, rare in Trag., e.g. A. Pers. 424: but in Dor. and certain other dialects as the Article, Ἱάρων . . καὶ τοὶ Συρακόσιοι SIG 35Ba (Olympia, V B.C.), etc.

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. τοι (scan p. 316; entry #1423).
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. τοι (scan pp. 1879-1880; entry #5694).

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