οὐαί

Ancient Greek

Beekes argues for a Semitic loanword. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *wai.

οὐαί • (ouaí)

(exclamation of pain and anger) ah, woe, alas
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Amos 5.18
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 1 Kings 13.30
- 108 CE, Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 3.19.1

οὐαί in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
οὐαί in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
οὐαί in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G3759 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

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