ἠχή

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • ᾱ̓χᾱ́ (ākhā́)Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂gʰ- (to sound). Cognate with Old English swōgan (to resound) (English sough).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ἠχή • (ēkhḗf (genitive ἠχῆς); first declension

  1. sound, noise

Inflection

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἠχη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 528

Further reading

  • ἠχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ἠχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ἠχή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ἠχή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ἠχή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.