ὕω
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ὕω
ὕσω
ὗσα
ὗσμαι
ὕσθην
Structure:
ύ̔
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- I rain
- (with accusative of place) I rain on
Conjugation
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- ὅστε ἀρυσάμενοσ ποταμῶν ἄπο αἰεναόντων, ὑψοῦ ὑπὲρ γαίησ ἀρθεὶσ ἀνέμοιο θυέλλῃ ἄλλοτε μέν θ’ ὑεί ποτὶ ἕσπερον, ἄλλοτ’ ἀήσι πυκνὰ Θρηικίου Βορέου νέφεα κλονέοντοσ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 61:8)
- ἀλλὰ τίσ ὑεί; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Choral, anapests12)
- ὑεί μὲν ὁ Ζεύσ, ἐκ δ’ ὀρανῶ μέγασ χειμών, πεπάγασιν δ’ ὑδάτων ῥοαί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 35 2:6)
- κρεᾴδι’ ἄττα,3 ποδάρια, ῥύγχη τινά, ὠτάρι’ ὑεί’, ἡπάτιον ἐγκεκαλυμμένον αἰσχύνεται γὰρ πελιδνὸν ὂν τῷ χρώματι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 69 4:3)
- τὴν ἔγχελυν μέγιστον ἡγεῖ δαίμονα, ἡμεῖσ δὲ τῶν ὄψων μέγιστον παρὰ πολὺ οὐκ ἐσθίεισ ὑεί’, ἐγὼ δὲ γ’ ἥδομαι μάλιστα τούτοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 55 1:4)
Synonyms
-
I rain
-
I rain on
Derived
- ἀνύω (to effect, achieve, accomplish)
- ἐφύω (to rain upon, rained upon, exposed to the rain)
- μεθύω (to be drunken with wine, soaked, to be drunken or intoxicated)