ἐκεῖ: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adv.<br />Meaning: [[there]], [[to there]] (Hdt.)<br />Other forms: [[κεῖ]] (Archil., Herod.), [[κῆ]] (Sapph.), an old instr. From there (<b class="b3">ἐ)κεῖθι</b>, [[κῆθι]] <b class="b2">id.</b>, (<b class="b3">ἐ)κεῖθεν</b> [[from there]], (<b class="b3">ἐ)κεῖσε</b><br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [609] <b class="b2">*(h₁)e-ḱe(i)-</b> [[there]]<br />Etymology: Ending as in [[πεῖ]], [[πῆ]] <b class="b2">where?</b>, <b class="b3">τεῖ-δε</b>, <b class="b3">τῆ-δε</b> [[here]] etc. (Schwyzer 549f.) and like these prob. an old locative . The basis is a deictic particle, IE <b class="b2">*ḱe</b>, <b class="b2">*ḱi</b>, seen e.g. in Lat. [[ce-do]], [[hi-c]], [[ci-s]] and with pronomin. function in Hitt. [[ki]] [[this]], Lith. <b class="b2">šì-s</b> [[this]] etc. (s. W.-Hofmann s. <b class="b2">-ce</b>; s. also [[τήμερον]]); the 3rd person deixis must then be a Greek innovation _(cf. on [[ἐκεῖνος]]). The initial <b class="b3">ἐ-</b> (cf. <b class="b3">ἐ-κεῖνος</b>, <b class="b3">ἐ-χθές</b>) too is an inherited demonstrative particle: Oskc. [[e-tanto]] [[tanta]], Russ. <b class="b2">é-tot</b> [[this]], Skt. <b class="b2">a-sáu</b> [[that]] (s. [[οὗτος]]; Pok. 283f.).