εὖ

See also: ευ, εὐ-, εὑ, ἐΰ, and ἐύ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐΰ (eǘ) — Epic

Etymology

Adverbial use of neuter accusative singular of ἐΰς (eǘs, “good”), from Proto-Hellenic *ehu-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁su- (“good”).^[1]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /êu̯/ → /eβ/ → /ev/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /êu̯/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ew/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eβ/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ev/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ev/

Adverb

εὖ • (eû) (indeclinable)

1. well

Derived terms

• εὐ- (eu-)

Descendants

• English: eu-
• Greek: ευ (ef)

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “εὖ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 477

Further reading

• “εὖ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εὖ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “εὖ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• εὖ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “εὖ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2095 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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