The corpus record

ἠχή

eche · ἡ

sound, noise

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Where it lives

Phoenissae 3 · 3.11/10k
Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Crito 1 · 2.4/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Iliad 10 · 0.9/10k
Philebus 1 · 0.57/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

sound, noise, cry, wail, rumour, talk

sound, noise, ἠ. ἀμφοτέρων (sc. Ἀργείων καὶ Τρώων) ἵκετʼ αἰθέρα Il. 13.837: freq. in dat., ἠχῇ, ὡς ὅτε κῦμα . . βρέμεται 2.209; of trees, πρὸς ἀλλήλας ἔβαλον τανυήκεας ὄζους ἠχῇ θεσπεσίῃ 16.769; πέτρη . . ἣ δέ τε ἠχῇ ἔρχεται ἐμμεμαυῖα Hes. Sc. 438; in Trag., cry of sorrow, wail, E. Med. 149 (lyr.), Hipp. 585 (lyr.), cf. Nic. Al. 304; but also σάλπιγγος ἠ. E. Ph. 1378; ἐν ἐμοὶ ἡ ἠ. τῶν λόγων βομβεῖ Pl. Cri. 54d, cf. Ti. 37b; of the grasshopper, Longus 1.23: rarely of articulate sounds, E. Ph. 114

In the wild

ἠχῇ · ēchēi Aeschylus, Persians 386–390
ἀχέων · acheōn Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 11–18
ἠχὴν · ēchēn Euripides, Bacchae 1086–1087
ἀχέων · acheōn Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 130)
ἀχὰν · achan Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 73)
ἀχά · acha Euripides, Phoenissae 1 (DIORISIS sentence 627)

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἠχή (scan pp. 575-576; entry #2506). Root candidates: *su-.
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἠχή (scan p. 432; entry #3058).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἠχή (scan pp. 678-679; entry #2376).

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