κἄμʼ (kam)

κἄμʼ is an Ancient Greek form of ἐγώ, meaning “I”. It is the accusative singular masculine pronoun.

It can also be a form of κατά, “down; along, according to (+gen./acc.)”.

Found 57 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 427: σιγῇ. σὲ σῶσαι κἄμ’, ἐὰν βούλῃ, θέλω.

Euripides, Heracleidae 973: ἔγωγε· καίτοι φημὶ κἄμʼ εἶναί τινα.

Plutarch, Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus 10·2: … λμός, ἥτις ἀνδρὸς ᾖ γεγευμένη νέῳ δʼ ἀνδρὶ γευσαμένῳ προκοπῆς ἀληθοῦς ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ τὰ Σαπφικὰ ταυτὶ παρέπεται κὰμ μὲν γλῶσσα ἔαγε, λέπτον δʼ αὔτικα χρῷ πῦρ ὑποδέδρομεν, ἀθόρυβον δʼ ὄψει καὶ πρᾶον ὄμμα, φθεγγομένου δʼ ἂν ἀκο …

All forms of ἐγώ (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.