ἠχή

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)weh₂gʰ- (“to sound”). Cognates are difficult to assign with certainty, but probably include Latin vāgiō (“to wail”), Sanskrit वग्नु (vagnu, “noise, sound”), Old English swōgan (“to resound”) (English sough).^[1]

ἠχή • (ēkhḗ) f (genitive ἠχῆς); first declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἠχή hē ēkhḗ	τὼ ἠχᾱ́ tṑ ēkhā́	αἱ ἠχαί hai ēkhaí
Genitive	τῆς ἠχῆς tês ēkhês	τοῖν ἠχαῖν toîn ēkhaîn	τῶν ἠχῶν tôn ēkhôn
Dative	τῇ ἠχῇ têi ēkhêi	τοῖν ἠχαῖν toîn ēkhaîn	ταῖς ἠχαῖς taîs ēkhaîs
Accusative	τὴν ἠχήν tḕn ēkhḗn	τὼ ἠχᾱ́ tṑ ēkhā́	τᾱ̀ς ἠχᾱ́ς tā̀s ēkhā́s
Vocative	ἠχή ēkhḗ	ἠχᾱ́ ēkhā́	ἠχαί ēkhaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ 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

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“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.
- blare idem, page 82.
- flourish idem, page 329.
- noise idem, page 559.
- peal idem, page 601.
- rattle idem, page 673.
- roar idem, page 719.
- sound idem, page 796.