οἴχομαι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Mediopassive form (with perfective meaning?) to Ancient Greek οἰχνέω (oikhnéō, to go, come, walk, approach), both connected to Armenian and Tocharian verbal forms (with meanings such as Old Armenian իջանեմ (iǰanem, to come down) and Tocharian B yku (gone)). Compare also Old Irish óegi (guest) and Lithuanian eigà (course); if these are all related, they point to Proto-Indo-European *h₁eygʰ- (to go).[1] This root in turn may possibly be an extension of Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (to go),[2] whence εἶμι (eîmi).

Pronunciation

 

Verb

οἴχομαι • (oíkhomai) (deponent)

  1. to have or be gone, absent, vanished
  2. to be undone, ruined
  3. (euphemistic) to be dead

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Douglas Q. Adams, A Dictionary of Tocharian B, 2nd edn. (Amsterdam–NY: Rodopi, 2013), 283.

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