# οὗ
## Ancient Greek
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hûː/ → /u/ → /u/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /hûː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /(h)u/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /u/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /u/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /u/

### Etymology 1

* PIE word
* *swé
This pronominal is the singular masculine genitive of the demonstrative pronoun ὅς (hós, “this (man)”). Accusative declension form ἕ (hé) apparently from Proto-Hellenic *hwe = ϝέ, from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“reflexive pronoun”).

#### Alternative forms

* οὑ (hou) — enclitic
* εἷο (heîo), ἕο (héo), εὗ (heû), ἕθεν (héthen) — Epic
* ἑο (heo), ἑθεν (hethen) — Epic, enclitic
* εὑ (heu) — Epic, Ionic, enclitic, synaeresis
* ἑοῦς (heoûs), ἑοῦ (heoû), ϝέος (wéos), ἕθεν (héthen) — Doric
* ϝέθεν (wéthen) — Aeolic

#### Pronoun

οὗ • (hoû)
* "of him/her/it", "than him/her/it", etc.
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.165:... ἐπεί ἑό [or εὑ] φημι βίῃ πολὺ φέρτερος εἶναι καὶ γενεῇ πρότερος... epeí heó [or heu] phēmi bíēi polù phérteros eînai kaì geneêi próterosFor I avow to be far better than him in might, and the elder in birth.

##### Usage notes

For dual and plural forms, see σφωέ (sphōé) and σφεῖς (spheîs).

##### Derived terms

* ἑαυτοῦ (heautoû), ἑωυτοῦ (heōutoû)

##### Related terms

* ὅς (hós), ἑός (heós, “third singular possessive adjective”)

##### Descendants

* Tsakonian: νι (ni), σι (si)

#### See also

* ἐγώ (egṓ)
* σύ (sú)

#### References

* “οὗ, οἷ, ἕ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 325
* Carl Darling Buck, Introduction to the Study of the Greek Dialects, section 118
* Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 365

### Etymology 2

See ὅς (hós).

#### Pronoun

οὗ • (hoû)
* masculine genitive singular of ὅς (hós)
* neuter genitive singular of ὅς (hós)

#### Adverb

οὗ • (hoû) (relative adverb)
* where, when
** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 486:οὗ Σπερχειὸς ἄρδει πεδίον εὐμενεῖ ποτῷhoû Sperkheiòs árdei pedíon eumeneî potôiwhere the Sphercheus waters the plain with kindly stream.
** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 486:νῦν γὰρ δὴ ἐξ οὗ ἐγένοντο Ἀθηναῖοι ἐς κίνδυνον ἥκουσιnûn gàr dḕ ex hoû egénonto Athēnaîoi es kíndunon hḗkousinow indeed since when the athenians were born they get to an enormous danger

##### See also

| type | interrogative | indefinite | demonstrative | demonstrative | demonstrative | relative | indefinite relative | identity | other |
| type | interrogative | indefinite | (medial) | proximal | distal | relative | indefinite relative | identity | other |
| basic | τίς | τις, ἔνιοι | †ὁ, οὗτος | ὅδε | ἐκεῖνος | ὅς | ὅστις | ὁ αὐτός (αὑτός), ὁμός | ἕτερος, ἄλλος |
| dual | πότερος | πότερος, ποτερός | | | | ὁπότερος | ὁπότερος | | |
| quality | ποῖος | ποιός | †τοῖος, τοιοῦτος | τοιόσδε | | οἷος | ὁποῖος | ὅμοιος | ἑτεροῖος, ἀλλοῖος |
| quantity | πόσος | ποσός | †τόσος, τοσοῦτος | τοσόσδε | | ὅσος | ὁπόσος | | |
| manner | πῶς | πως | †τώς, †ὥς, οὕτως | ὧδε | | ὡς | ὅπως | ὁμῶς | ἑτέρως, ἄλλως |
| method, path, place | πῇ | πῃ | τῇ, ταύτῃ | τῇδε | ἐκείνῃ | ᾗ | ὅπῃ | | ἄλλῃ |
| place | ποῦ, †πόθι | που, †ποθι | ἐνταῦθα | ἐνθάδε | ἐκεῖ, ἔνθα, †ἐκεῖθι | οὗ, ἔνθα, †ὅθι | ὅπου, †ὁπόθι | αὐτόθι, ὁμοῦ | ἄλλοθι |
| source | πόθεν | ποθεν, ἁμόθεν | †τόθεν, ἔνθεν, ἐντεῦθεν | ἐνθένδε | ἐκεῖθεν | ὅθεν | ὁπόθεν | †ὁμόθεν | ἄλλοθεν |
| destination | ποῖ, †πόσε | ποι | ἔνθα, ἐνταῦθα | ἐνθάδε, δεῦρο | ἐκεῖσε | οἷ | ὅποι, †ὁπόσε | αὐτόσε, ὁμόσε | ἄλλοσε |
| time | πότε, πῆμος | ποτέ, ποτε, τοτέ, ἐνίοτε | τότε, τῆμος | τημόσδε | | ὅτε, ἦμος | ὁπότε, †ὁππῆμος | ἅμα | ἄλλοτε |
| exact time | πηνίκα | | †τηνίκα, τηνικαῦτα | τηνικάδε | | ἡνίκα | ὁπηνίκα | αὐτίκα | |
| duration of time | | | τέως | | | ἕως | | | |
| size, age | πηλίκος | πηλίκος | †τηλίκος, τηλικοῦτος | τηλικόσδε | | ἡλίκος | ὁπηλίκος | ὁμῆλιξ | |
| repetition | ποσάκις, ποσίνδα | ποσάκις | τουτάκις, τοσάκις | | | †ὁσάκις ὁποσάκις | ὁποσάκις | | |
| multiplication | ποσαπλάσιος | | | | | ὁσαπλάσιος, ὁσαπλασίων | | | |
| order | πόστος | ποστός | | | | | ὁπόστος | | |
| † Forms rarely or never used in Classical Attic prose Relative also used in exclamations; either relative or indefinite relative used in indirect questions. ||||||||||

### Etymology 3

From ὅς (hós, “his”).

#### Adjective

οὗ • (hoû)
* masculine genitive singular of ὅς (hós)
* neuter genitive singular of ὅς (hós)

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

οὗ • (hoû)
* second-person singular aorist middle imperative of ἵημι (híēmi)

#### References

* “οὗ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “οὗ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “οὗ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* οὗ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* G3757 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. where idem, page 975.