ἐλεύσομαι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow up, come out”). Particularly close cognate semantically with Old Irish luid (“he went”). Also compared often with Old Armenian ելանեմ (elanem, “to go out”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.lěu̯.so.mai̯/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /eˈleʍ.so.mɛ/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eˈleɸ.so.mɛ/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eˈlef.so.me/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈlef.so.me/

Verb

ἐλεύσομαι • (eleúsomai) (Epic, Ionic, Tragic)

first-person singular future middle indicative of ἔρχομαι (érkhomai)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἐλεύσομαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 408