ὄχθη

See also: όχθη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Seems to display a suffix like in μόχθος (mókhthos) and βρόχθος (brókhthos), but the connection with ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”) is semantically unconvincing. Furnée compares ἀκτή (aktḗ, “promontory, edge”), which would point to a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ókʰ.tʰɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈokʰ.tʰe̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈox.θi/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈox.θi/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈox.θi/

Noun

ὄχθη • (ókhthē) f (genitive ὄχθης); first declension

bank, riverbank, dyke by the side of a river (either natural or artificial)
high and rocky edge by the sea

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὄχθη; τῆς ὄχθης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὄχθη hē ókhthē	τὼ ὄχθᾱ tṑ ókhthā	αἱ ὄχθαι hai ókhthai
Genitive	τῆς ὄχθης tês ókhthēs	τοῖν ὄχθαιν toîn ókhthain	τῶν ὀχθῶν tôn okhthôn
Dative	τῇ ὄχθῃ têi ókhthēi	τοῖν ὄχθαιν toîn ókhthain	ταῖς ὄχθαις taîs ókhthais
Accusative	τὴν ὄχθην tḕn ókhthēn	τὼ ὄχθᾱ tṑ ókhthā	τᾱ̀ς ὄχθᾱς tā̀s ókhthās
Vocative	ὄχθη ókhthē	ὄχθᾱ ókhthā	ὄχθαι ókhthai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ὀχθηρός (okhthērós)
ὄχθος (ókhthos)
ὀχθοφύλαξ (okhthophúlax)
ὀχθώδης (okhthṓdēs)

Descendants

Greek: όχθη (óchthi)

References

“ὄχθη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ὄχθη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ὄχθη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ὄχθη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN