η4Ἦ
I was
Used for h)=n ["I was"] without the nu. "Just as I learned when I was a boy". [So says] Aristophanes in Birds. Also in Lysistrata: "I was ten years old". [Also] used for e)/a, [which becomes] h)= by contraction.
Ἦ· χωρὶς τοῦ ν ἀντὶ τοῦ ἦν. ἀλλ' οἷάπερ αὐτὸς ἔμαθον ὅτε παῖς ἦ. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἔα. Ἀριστοφάνης Ὄρνισι. καὶ ἐν Λυσιστράτῃ· ἦ δεκέτις. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἔα, κατὰ συναίρεσιν ἦ.