A.crave, yearn, v.l. for ἰσχ- in Il.23.300, Od 8.288; “τυροῦ ἀλώπηξ ἰχανῶσα” Babr.77.2:—Med., “ἰχανᾶσθ᾽ ἐπαυρέσθαι” Herod. 7.26, cf. Hsch., EM478.44. (Cf. sq.; Ἴχανα , name of a town in Sicily, is derived from the root by St.Byz.: prob. cogn. with ἀχήν, ἠχήν; Avest. α_ζι- 'craving', Skt. īhate 'crave'.)
ἰχα^νάω [ι_],
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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