ἔνιοι: Difference between revisions

|Definition=αι, α, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">some;</b> never in Ep., Lyr., or Att. Poets before Men., exc. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>867</span> (cf. however <b class="b3">ἐνίοτε</b>); first used in Ion. Prose, as <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.120</span>, <span class="bibl">8.56</span>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Praec.</span>6</span>; πολλοὶ μὲν . . ἔνιοι δὲ . . <span class="bibl">Lys.25.19</span>; ἔνιοι μὲν . . ἔνιοι δὲ . . <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>151a</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>4.2.38</span>; ἔνιοι μὲν . . οἱ δὲ . . <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Mx.</span>238e</span>; ἔνιοί τινες <span class="bibl">Isoc.15.258</span>: later in sg., οὐ πᾶσα κίνησις θερμαίνει, ἀλλ' ἐνία ψύχει <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>884b13</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Vert.</span>1</span>; περὶ ψυχῆς ἐνίας θεωρῆσαι <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Metaph.</span>1026a5</span>: neut. pl. as Adv., συμμανῆναι ἔνια δεῖ <span class="bibl">Men.421</span>; ἔστι καὶ ταὐτόματον ἔνια χρήσιμον <span class="bibl">Id.486</span>.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[some]], [[a few]],<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἐνίοτε</b> [[sometimes]], <b class="b3">ἐνιαχῆ</b>, <b class="b3">-οῦ</b> [[in some places]], [[sometimes]], orig. Ion. words (only in prose), that were taken up in Attic; late Dorianising reshaping <b class="b3">ἐνίοκα</b> (Archyt.), also <b class="b3">ἐνιάκις</b> [[sometimes]] (Sor.; after <b class="b3">πολλάκις</b> a. o.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [319] <b class="b2">*h₁eno-</b> [[that]]<br />Etymology: Uncertain. The explanation by Ebel KZ 5, 70f. (taken over by Schwyzer 614 n. 4) from <b class="b3">ἔνι οἵ</b>, <b class="b3">ἔνι ὅτε</b> = <b class="b3">ἔστιν οἵ</b>, <b class="b3">ἔσθ</b>' <b class="b3">ὅτε</b> must be given up, as <b class="b3">ἔνι</b> as [[is]], [[are]] is certain only since V-VIp ([[s]]. <b class="b3">ἔν</b>). Best seems the idea of Benfey, futher argumented by Wackernagel Hellenistica 6 n. 1 (= Kl. Schr. 2, 1037 n. 1) as <b class="b3">ἕν</b> [[one]] (like [[einige]] to [[eins]]); the psilosis would be Ion. For the ending cf. <b class="b3">μύριοι</b>, <b class="b3">χίλιοι</b>; <b class="b3">ἐνίοτε</b>, <b class="b3">ἐνιαχῆ</b>, <b class="b3">-οῦ</b> like <b class="b3">ὅτε</b>, <b class="b3">πότε</b>, <b class="b3">πολλαχῆ</b>, <b class="b3">-οῦ</b> etc. - Improbable Brugmann IF 28, 355ff. (to the demonstr. <b class="b3">*ἐνος</b> in <b class="b3">ἔνη</b> [[the third day]], <b class="b3">ἐκεῖνος</b> etc.