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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. Beekes states a formation in *-nos- like ἔρνος (érnos), κτῆνος (ktênos). The first part could be cognate with Ancient Greek οἴχομαι (oíkhomai, “to go (away), leave, disappear, die”) or Ancient Greek οἰχνέω (oikhnéō, “to go, come, walk, approach”), which are connected to Old Armenian իջանեմ (iǰanem, “to come down, descend”) and Tocharian B yku (“gone”); furthermore compare Old Irish óegi (“guest”) and Lithuanian eigà (“course”), for perhaps Proto-Indo-European *h₁eygʰ- (“to go”), a possible extension of *h₁ey- with similar meaning. However, this connection is disputed by other sources.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /í.kʰnos/ → /ˈi.xnos/ → /ˈi.xnos/
Noun
ἴχνος • (íkhnos) n (genitive ἴχνους); third declension
- track, footstep, footprint
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἴχνος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 607
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “οἴχομαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Further reading
- “ἴχνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἴχνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἴχνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἴχνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἴχνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἴχνος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2487 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- clue idem, page 140.
- foot-mark idem, page 334.
- foot-print idem, page 334.
- impression idem, page 423.
- indication idem, page 432.
- print idem, page 641.
- scent idem, page 738.
- step idem, page 815.
- trace idem, page 884.
- track idem, page 885.
- trail idem, page 886.
- tread idem, page 891.
- vestige idem, page 949.