The corpus record

οἰχνέω

oichneo

go, come, walk, live

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Where it lives

Electra 2 · 2.3/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

οἰχνέω · oichneō — LSJ

go, come, walk, live

go, come, Il. 5.790, 15.640 (in Iterat. οἴχνεσκον, -εσκε); of birds, Od. 3.322 ; walk, i.e. live, ἀνύμφευτος αἰὲν οἰχνῶ S. El. 165 (lyr.).

II to be gone

like οἴχομαι, to be gone, τηλωπὸς οἰχνεῖ Id. Aj. 564 ; θυραῖος οἰ. Id. El. 313.

III approach

c. acc. pers., approach, Pi. P. 5.86 : c. acc. rei, Id. Fr. 75.5 :—in form οἰχνεύω, Id. Fr. 206 (where ἰχνεύων codd. Plu. Nic. 1). (Akin to sq.)

In the wild

οἴχνεσκε · oichneske Iliad 15.640
οἴχνεσκον · oichneskon Iliad 5.790
οἰχνεῦσιν · oichneusin Odyssey 3.322
οἰχνεῖ · oichnei Sophocles, Ajax 562–564
οἰχνῶ · oichnō Sophocles, Electra 164–166
οἰχνεῖν · oichnein Sophocles, Electra 312

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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