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Contents
1 Ancient Greek
1.1 Alternative forms
1.2 Etymology
1.3 Pronunciation
1.4 Pronoun
1.4.1 Inflection
1.4.2 See also
1.5 Further reading
2 Greek
2.1 Etymology
2.2 Pronunciation
2.3 Article
2.3.1 Declension
2.3.2 Related terms
2.4 Pronoun
2.4.1 Alternative forms
2.4.2 Related terms

Ancient Greek
Alternative forms

(kis) Thessalian
(sis) Arcadocypriot

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kis. Cognates include Latin quis and Hittite [script needed] (kui). Compare its
interrogative form (ts, who?).

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /tis/ /tis/ /tis/ [more ]

Pronoun

(tis)

1. (indefinite, masculine/feminine) someone, anyone, a certain one

2. (indefinite, in neuter) something, anything, a certain thing

Inflection

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Third declension of , [hide ]

Number Singular Dual Plural

Masculine /
Case / Gender Neuter Masculine / Feminine Neuter Masculine / Feminine Neuter
Feminine
Nominative
,
Genitive ,

Dative , , () ()
Accusative

See also

Ancient Greek correlatives [hide ]

(medial) proximal distal indefinite

type interrogative indefinite relative
demonstrative demonstrative demonstrative relative

basic ,

,
dual

,
quality

,
quantity

, ,
manner

, , , , , ,
place ,

, ,
source

,
destination , ,

,
time , , ,

,
exact time

,
size, age

, ,
repetition

,
multiplication

order

Forms rarely or never used in Classical Attic prose

Relative also used in exclamations; either relative or indefinite relative used in indirect questions.

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Further reading

(http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=tis) in Liddell &

Scott (1940) A GreekEnglish Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
(http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0058:entry=tis) in Liddell &
Scott (1889) An Intermediate GreekEnglish Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
(https://archive.org/stream/BaillyDictionnaireGrecFrancais/Bailly_DictionnaireGrecFrancais#page/n
1936/mode/1up) in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-franais, Paris: Hachette
(http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/cunliffe/#eid=8955&context=lsj) in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon
of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
(http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/resolveform?type=exact&lookup=tis&lang=greek) in Slater,
William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G5100 (http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G5100&t=KJV), in Strongs
Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) EnglishGreek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1] (http://www.lib.
uchicago.edu/efts/Woodhouse/), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. [Collapse]

Greek
Etymology

From Byzantine Greek (ts) (11th century; through morphological levelling of the accusative and
nominative plurals)

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /tis/
Homophone: (tis)

Article

(tis) f pl

1. (definite) accusative feminine plural of (o) (the)

Declension

The definite article [show ]

Related terms

(contraction): (se) (tis) (stis)

Pronoun

(tis) (weak personal pronoun)

1. them (3rd person feminine plural, accusative; used before the verb)

Alternative forms

(tes) (used after the verb)

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Related terms

Third person forms [show ]

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