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|etymtx=ί<br />Grammatical information: pcle<br />Meaning: added particle, demonstrative-augmentative, <b class="b3">ὁδ-</b>ί, <b class="b3">οὑτοσ-</b>ί, <b class="b3">νυν-</b>ί etc. (Att.; also El. <b class="b3">το-ΐ</b>, Boeot. <b class="b3">ταν-ί</b> etc.), rarely -ί<b class="b3">ν</b>.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [285] <b class="b2">*-i</b> <b class="b2">demonstr. pcle</b><br />Etymology: To be compared are the added enclitics Skt. and GAv. [[īm]], [[ī]]; further <b class="b2">-i</b> in Hitt. [[aši]], <b class="b2">eni-</b>, <b class="b2">uni-</b> <b class="b2">the one mentioned, he</b>, in Lat. [[utī]] etc.; Gothic has <b class="b2">-ei</b>. See Schwyzer 611 n. 3.
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