ἐνίοκα

ἐνίοκα, [dialect] Dor. for sq., Archyt. ap. Stob.3.1.114.

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `some, a few',

Derivatives: ἐνίοτε `sometimes', ἐνιαχῆ, - οῦ `in some places, sometimes', orig. Ion. words (only in prose), that were taken up in Attic; late Dorianising reshaping ἐνίοκα (Archyt.), also ἐνιάκις `sometimes' (Sor.; after πολλάκις a. o.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [319] * h₁eno- `that'

Etymology: Uncertain. The explanation by Ebel KZ 5, 70f. (taken over by Schwyzer 614 n. 4) from ἔνι οἵ, ἔνι ὅτε = ἔστιν οἵ, ἔσθ' ὅτε must be given up, as ἔνι as `is, are' is certain only since V-VI<sup>p</sup> (s. ἔν). Best seems the idea of Benfey, futher argumented by Wackernagel Hellenistica 6 n. 1 (= Kl. Schr. 2, 1037 n. 1) as ἕν `one' (like einige to eins); the psilosis would be Ion. For the ending cf. μύριοι, χίλιοι; ἐνίοτε, ἐνιαχῆ, - οῦ like ὅτε, πότε, πολλαχῆ, - οῦ etc. - Improbable Brugmann IF 28, 355ff. (to the demonstr. *ἐνος in ἔνη `the third day', ἐκεῖνος etc.

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