αἰέν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

This was the pre-archaic locative case of αἰών (aiṓn, “(an) eternity, (an) age”), which grammatical case, along with the instrumental case, was later merged and subsumed in Greek under the dative case.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ai̯.én/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ɛˈen/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɛˈen/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eˈen/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈen/

Adverb

αἰέν • (aién)

Epic and Tragic form of ἀεί (aeí)

Notes

This appears to be the original form of what later became Ionic αἰεί (aieí) and Attic ἀεί (aeí).