τοι
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See also: τοί
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
A variant form of σοι (soi, “to you”), dative of σύ (sú, “thou”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /toi̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ty/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ty/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ty/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ti/
Particle
τοι • (toi) (discourse particle)
- (discourse particle, assuring the listener that what the speaker says is true, or implying the listener knows it is true) let me tell you, you see, certainly
Derived terms
References
- “τοι (A)”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τοι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τοι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τοι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τοι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- τοι 1 in Lexicon to Pindar by William J. Slater, De Gruyter, Berlin, 1969
Greek
Pronoun
τοι • (toi) (weak personal)
- they (3rd person masculine plural, nominative)
Related terms
Third person forms
Number (style) | singular (familiar) | plural (formal) | ||||||||||
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strong | weak | strong | weak | |||||||||
m | f | n | m | f | n | m | f | n | m | f | n | |
nominative | αυτός • | αυτή • | αυτό • | τος • | τη • | το • | αυτοί • | αυτές • | αυτά • | τοι • | τες • | τα • |
genitive | αυτού • | αυτής • | αυτού • | του • † | της • † | του • † | αυτών • | αυτών • | αυτών • | τους • † | τους • † | τους • † |
accusative | αυτόν • | αυτήν • | αυτό • | τον • | την • | το • | αυτούς • | αυτές • | αυτά • | τους • | τις •, τες •‡ | τα • |
There is no 3rd person vocative case. † These terms double as possessive pronouns. ‡ "τις" is used before a verb, "τες" after a verb.. All personal pronoun forms are displayed at εγώ (egó, “I”). |