ὑεῖ (hyei)

ὑεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of ὕω, meaning “rain”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 4.43: χὡ Ζεὺς ἄλλοκα μὲν πέλει αἴθριος, ἄλλοκα δʼ ὕει.

Plato, Apology 20: … εκε χρήματα σοφισταῖς πλείω ἢ σύμπαντες οἱ ἄλλοι, Καλλίᾳ τῷ Ἱππονίκου· τοῦτον οὖν ἀνηρόμην—ἐστὸν γὰρ αὐτῷ δύο ὑεῖ— ὦ Καλλία, ἦν δʼ ἐγώ, εἰ μέν σου τὼ ὑεῖ πώλω ἢ μόσχω ἐγενέσθην, εἴχομεν ἂν αὐτοῖν ἐπιστάτην λαβεῖν καὶ μισθώσ …

All forms of ὕω (conjugation 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.