¹ Whether one should write πoι with the Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften (SGDI), Göttingen, 1884–1915 (except in Delphian), or ποί with E. Schwyzer, Dialectorum Graecarum exempla epigraphica potiora, Leipzig, 1913, and C. D. Buck, Introduction to the Study of the Greek Dialects², Boston, 1928, is uncertain, and, in the present connection, immaterial. The unaccented form is here used.

² All illustrations throughout this article are taken from the SGDI, unless otherwise indicated; therefore, SGDI is omitted in writing the reference.

³ Boisacq, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque² 799 (Paris, 1923); Prellwitz, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der griechischen Sprache 377 (Göttingen, 1905); Brugmann, Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen 2. 2. 840 (Strassburg² 1897–1913); Endzelin, Lettische Grammatik 524–6 (Heidelberg, 1923); Trautmann, Baltisch-Slavisches Wörterbuch 210 (Göttingen, 1923).

⁴ Kretschmer, Glotta 1. 41–3 (1909). Brugmann, Grdr.² 2.2. 840 gives a bibliography for discussion of ποι. See also: Brugmann-Thumb, Griechische Grammatik⁴ 514–5 (Munich, 1913); Walde-Pokorny, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indo-germanischen Sprachen, 1. 77, 78–9 (1926–1930); Meister, Die griechischen Dialekte 2. 250–1, 267 (Göttingen, 1882–1889); Bechtel, Die griechischen Dialekte 2. 35–6, 69, 144, 274, 503–4, 768 (Berlin, 1921–1924); Jacobson, KZ 42. 277 f.; Kretschmer, Glotta 3. 322–4 (1912).

⁵ Buck 100.

⁶ This reading is questioned (Glotta 1.42).

⁷ Schwyzer 109.41 gives this reading also.

⁸ ποι as a proposition occurs 48 times of which 41 appearances are before the article and 4 before Δ∈λφού; therefore, in reality, these 45 examples have the value of only 2; of the other 3, 2 are before dentals and 1 not. It hardly seems reasonable to create a new phonetic principle in Greek on examples based chiefly on the article; it is well-known that any Greek preposition will show a preponderance of occurrences before the article. The prefix ποι- appears 9 times; 4 in ποι-τάσσω, 2 in ποιδβΐ; ποιθμ∈ν₁ ∈οικ∈φάλαιον and ∈οίγραψάνσθω are single occurrences. The count actually stands 7 to 3 :

(a) before dentals : ποι before the article, ποι before Δ∈λφoὐ, ποι 3325. 297, ποιδ' 3342–20, ποιτάσσω, πoιδ∈î, ποιθμεν.

(b) before non-dentals: (those questioned ποι Aνσίμαχον and ποι γâv are omitted). The total appearance of ποι (ποι-) before dentals is 54; however, ποτί (ποτι-) and ποτ (πor-), are found at least 61 times. In Argolic the ποι form is preferred to ποτί. These statistics are the result of two readings of the inscriptions (Argolic, Delphian, Locrian, Corinthian, Cretan, and Boeotian) as found in SGDI and Schwyzer.

⁹ Brugmann, Grdr.² 2. 2. 840.

¹⁰ Gray, Vocalic Alternation in the Disyllabic Base in Indo-European, AJP 51. 3 (1930).

¹¹ Brugmann, Grdr.² 2. 2. 838–44. Examples are given here for the different alternation-grades (∗epoi, ∗opoi, ∗epi ∗opi ∗pi, ∗pei ∗poi) as known before the appearance of Gray's study. Also, Walde-Pokorny 1. 122–3, 2. 77, 78–9.

¹² For discussion of IE prepositions, see Brugmann, Grdr.² 2. 2. 758–930; Delbrück, Vgl. Syntax 1. 643–744; Hirt, Indogermanische Grammatik 3.15–9 (Heidelberg, 1921–1927).

¹³ Brugmann, Grdr.² 2. 2. 737–38, KVG 456.

¹⁴ Brugmann, Grdr.² 2. 2. 731, KVG 455.

¹⁵ Kretschmer, Glotta 1. 53–6 (1909).

¹⁶ πó: Boisacq 806; Hoffmann, Die griechischen Dialekte 1. 311–12 (Göttingen, 1891–1898); Bechtel 1. 381, 440; Meister 1. 118, 267. ποτί: Boisacq 808; Bechtel 1. 166, 259, 295, 2. 21, 35, 69, 112–13, 182, 241, 274, 330–1, 477, 546, 593, 650, 768, 844, 885; Meister 1. 284; Hoffmann 2. 521, 592.

¹⁷ Brugmann, Grdr.² 2. 2. 891–3.

¹⁸ Walde-Pokorny 2. 77–9.

¹⁹ Brugmann, Grdr.² 2. 2. 806–9. Only most rarely in genitival constructions in Greek, notably in Elean ‘let him be banished by Olympian Zeus for (shedding) blood’, Schwyzer 424. 4–5 and in Av., as naēδa dunman uznasaiti haraiθyō paiti barzayå ‘nor do clouds arise from lofty Haraiti’ (Yašt 10. 50), can one fairly assume connection with the base ∗apo ∗po, in which case ποτί, paiti ‘to’ and ποτί, paiti ‘from’ would be homonyms; but even here the assumption appears quite unnecessary (cf. Brugmann. Grdr.² 2.2.789–91).

²⁰ Walde, Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 598 (Heidelberg, 1910). So also F. Müller, Altitalisches Wörterbuch 429 (Göttingen, 1926).

²¹ Kretschmer, Glotta 1. 53–6 (1909).

²² Buck 52 (cf. Hoffmann 1. 203; Bechtel 1. 340, 413; Brug.-Thumb 171).

²³ For a doubtful Cypr. instance, see Hoffmann 1. 83, 200.

²⁴ Brugmann, Grdr.² 2. 2. 838–44; also Boisacq 264–5, ∈πí; Walde 532–3 ob, 573 pe-nitus; Trautmann 207 pàs, 210 pie; Walde-Pokomy 1.122–3 epi opi pi.

²⁵ Trautmann 210 pie < ∗pei ‘to, near, against’, rightly may be placed here; it is merely the e-variant of this grade, ποι is the o-variant.

²⁶ Sturtevant. Language 6. 25–6 (1930).