- ἰωκη
- ἰωκηGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `rout, pursuit' (Il.).Other forms: acc. sg. ἰῶκα (Λ 601; on the heteroclisia Schwyzer 584, Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 231, Egli Heteroklisie 12f.)Derivatives: ἰωχμός `id.' (Il., Hes., Theoc.; cf. Trümpy Fachausdrücke 160), ἴωξις δίωξις H., παλί̄ωξις `pursuite in turn' (Il., App.), after it προίωξις (Hes. Sc. 154).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]Etymology: Primary formations to Ϝιώκει `pursue' (Cor.), so for (Ϝ)ιωκή, παλι-(Ϝ)ίωξις etc. (on traces of the digamma Chantraine 1, 143); ἰωχμός (ῑ- metr. lengthned) \< *ἰωκ-σμό-ς (Schwyzer 493). For Ϝιώκει [only inscr. Corinth: LSJ] (: Ϝίεμαι) s. διώκω. Details in Bechtel Lex. s. v. - Wrong Fraenkel Satura Berolinensis (1922) 20ff. (S. Kretschmer Glotta 15, 189). - The verb may be Pre-Greek, one would think of *wyōk- (with lengthned ō, from o \< a-kʷ?); *wi-ō- can hardly be IE.Page in Frisk: 1,747-748
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.