οἴχομαι

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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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]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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οἴχομαι (oíkhomai)

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

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  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

Further reading

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