eheu Latin · revision 32577

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=onomatopoeia|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈeː.(ɦ)ɛu̯], [ˈe.(ɦ)ɛu̯]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɛː.eu̯]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēheu''' (interjection; the first syllable is usually long, short in some lines of Plautus and Terence)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is an expressive cry, related to [[m|la|heu|t=alas]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary compares [[sa|अहो|tr=aho]], a comparison that once led scholars to assume an Indo-European origin.^(Wiktionary) Köbler refers it to Pokorny's interjection [[ine-pro|*eheu]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it often, in the ''Captivi'', the ''Trinummus'' and the ''Miles Gloriosus'', and Terence follows him.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It expresses pain or grief, "alas!".^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is often followed by ⟨quam⟩: in Terence a young man cries how much he now dislikes himself, and Horace uses the same turn.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that the epic and lyric poets always scan it with a long first syllable, and that some editors print a doubled heu there instead.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it ah.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, often with ''quam''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Interjection===

+ # An exclamation of grief or pain: [[m|en|alas]]!, ah!^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[heu]]

+ * [[en|alas]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}