ἧμαι

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

From *h₁ḗsti. Cognate with Sanskrit आस्ते (ā́ste), Hittite [script needed] (ēša), Hittite [script needed] (āšzi).[1]

Pronunciation
 

Verb

ἧμαι • (hêmai)

  1. I sit, am seated; I lie, am situated
    • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.498:
      εὗρεν δ’ εὐρύοπα Κρονίδην ἄτερ ἥμενον ἄλλων
      heûren d’ eurúopa Kronídēn áter hḗmenon állōn
      There she found the far-seeing son of Cronos sitting apart from the rest
    • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.509:
      τὴν δ’ ἑτέρην πόλιν ἀμφὶ δύω στρατοὶ ἥατο λαῶν τεύχεσι λαμπόμενοι
      tḕn d’ hetérēn pólin amphì dúō stratoì hḗato laôn teúkhesi lampómenoi
      About the other city there lay encamped two hosts in gleaming armour
    1. I lie hid

Inflection

The missing tenses are supplied by ἕζομαι, ἵζω and ἵζομαι.

   Present: ἧμαι without subjunctive and optative
number singular dual plural
first second third second third first second third
middle/
passive		 indicative ἧμαι ἧσαι ἦσται ἧσθον ἧσθον ἥμεθᾰ ἧσθε ἧνται
subjunctive                
optative                
imperative   ἧσο ἥσθω       ἧσθον ἥσθων
middle/passive
infinitive ἧσθαι
participle m ἥμενος
f ἡμένη
n ἥμενον
Notes: This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
   Imperfect: ἥμην
number singular dual plural
first second third second third first second third
middle/
passive		 indicative ἥμην ἧσο ἧστο ἧσθον ἥσθην ἥμεθᾰ ἧσθε ἧντο
Notes: This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • ἄφημαι (áphēmai)
  • ἔφημαι (éphēmai)
  • ἔνημαι (énēmai)
  • κάθημαι (káthēmai)
  • μέθημαι (méthēmai)
  • πάρημαι (párēmai)
  • πρόσημαι (prósēmai)
  • ὕφημαι (húphēmai)

References
  • ἧμαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ἧμαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ἧμαι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ἧμαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ἧμαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • ἧμαι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 789
  1. Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 296
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