A.“οἴξω” E.Cyc.502 : aor. “ᾦξα” Il.24.457 ; but augm. forms usu. have ὠϊ- in Ep. (v. infr.) ; part. “οἴξας” Il. (v. infr.) : Ion. pf. Pass. “ὤϊκται” Herod.4.55 : the compd. ἀνοίγνυμι or ἀνοίγω (q. v.) is much commoner, cf. also διοίγνυμι :—open, “οἴξασα κληῖδι θύρας” Il.6.89 ; τῇσι θύρας ὤϊξε ib.298 ; “οἴγειν κλῇθρα προσπόλοις λέγω” E.HF332 ; “ξενῶνας οἴξας” Id.Alc.547, cf. Com.Adesp.1211 : abs., ᾦξε γέροντι he opened the door for the old man, Il.24.457 ; also [οἶνον] . . ὤϊξεν ταμίη she opened the wine, Od.3.392 ; οἶγε πίθον open the wine-jar, Hes. l. c. ; “πρὸς φίλους οἴγειν στόμα” A.Pr.611 :—Pass., πᾶσαι δ᾽ ὠΐγνυντο (v.l. ὠΐγοντο, i. e. ὠείγ-, in PHib.21) “πύλαι” Il.2.809, 8.58 ; “οἰχθέντος Ὡρᾶν θαλάμου” Pi.Fr.75.14 ; “ἡ θύρη . . ὤϊκται” Herod. l. c. (Aeol. inf. “ὀείγην” IG12(2).6.43 (Mytil.) ; part. “ὀείγων” Alc.225 Lobel : prob. ὀ-ϝ ειγ- and ὀ-ϝι^γ-, cf. Skt. véga- 'quick movement' ; cf. ἐπῴχατο, προσοίγνυμι.）
οἴγω , Hes.Op.819, etc. ; later οἴγνυμι , AP9.356 (Leon.) : fut.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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