ἴχνος

See also: ίχνος

Ancient Greek

Uncertain. Beekes states a formation in *-nos- like ἔρνος (érnos), κτῆνος (ktênos). The first part could be cognate with Ancient Greek οἴχομαι (oíkhomai, “to go (away), leave, disappear, die”)^[1] or Ancient Greek οἰχνέω (oikhnéō, “to go, come, walk, approach”), which are connected to Old Armenian իջանեմ (iǰanem, “to come down, descend”) and Tocharian B yku (“gone”); furthermore compare Old Irish óegi (“guest”) and Lithuanian eigà (“course”), for perhaps Proto-Indo-European *h₁eygʰ- (“to go”),^[2] a possible extension of *h₁ey- with similar meaning. However, this connection is disputed by other sources.

ἴχνος • (íkhnos) n (genitive ἴχνους); third declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῐ̓́χνος tò íkhnos	τὼ ῐ̓́χνει tṑ íkhnei	τᾰ̀ ῐ̓́χνη tà íkhnē
Genitive	τοῦ ῐ̓́χνους toû íkhnous	τοῖν ῐ̓χνοῖν toîn ikhnoîn	τῶν ῐ̓χνῶν tôn ikhnôn
Dative	τῷ ῐ̓́χνει tôi íkhnei	τοῖν ῐ̓χνοῖν toîn ikhnoîn	τοῖς ῐ̓́χνεσῐ / ῐ̓́χνεσῐν toîs íkhnesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ ῐ̓́χνος tò íkhnos	τὼ ῐ̓́χνει tṑ íkhnei	τᾰ̀ ῐ̓́χνη tà íkhnē
Vocative	ῐ̓́χνος íkhnos	ῐ̓́χνει íkhnei	ῐ̓́χνη íkhnē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἴχνος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 607
^ 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

“ἴχνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἴχνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἴχνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἴχνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἴχνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“ἴχνος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G2487 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- clue idem, page 140.
- foot-mark idem, page 334.
- foot-print idem, page 334.
- impression idem, page 423.
- indication idem, page 432.
- print idem, page 641.
- scent idem, page 738.
- step idem, page 815.
- trace idem, page 884.
- track idem, page 885.
- trail idem, page 886.
- tread idem, page 891.
- vestige idem, page 949.