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|Definition=chiefly pres. and impf. <b class="b3">ηὔχουν</b>, fut. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> αὐχήσω <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>857</span>, <span class="bibl">Luc. <span class="title">DMort.</span>22.2</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>7.373 (Thall.): aor. <b class="b3">ηὔχησα</b> ib.6.283, 15.4, <span class="bibl">Apollod. 2.4.3</span>: (αὔχη):—[[boast]], [[plume oneself]], <b class="b3">ἐπί τινι</b> on a thing, <span class="bibl">Batr.57</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>6.283; τινί <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IA</span>412</span>: with neut.Adj., τοσοῦτον αὐχεῖν <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.103</span>; μέγ' αὐ. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Heracl.</span>353</span> (lyr.); μηδὲν τόδ' αὔχει <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Andr.</span>463</span>; μεγάλα <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Jac.</span>3.5</span>: c. acc. objecti, [[to boast of]], ἀστέρας <span class="title">AP</span>7.373 (Thall.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> c. acc. et inf., [[boast]] or [[declare loudly]] that... αὐχέοντες κάλλιστα τιθέναι ἀγῶνα <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.160</span>; ἀπεῶσθαι <span class="bibl">Th.2.39</span>; <b class="b3">σώσειν</b> (<b class="b3">σῶσαι</b> codd.) <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Andr.</span>311</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ba.</span>310</span>: c. acc. only, <b class="b3">αὐχῶ Σεβήραν</b> [[boast]] (that I hold her), <span class="title">IG</span>14.2001, cf. 3.172. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> c. inf. fut., <b class="b2">say confidently, to be proudly confident</b> that, αὐχῶ γὰρ αὐχῶ τήνδε δωρεὰν ἐμοὶ δώσειν Δί' <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>340</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">688</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pers.</span>741</span>, Cratin. I with a neg., <b class="b3">οὐ γάρ ποτ' ηὔχουν… μεθέξειν</b> I never [[thought]] that... <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>506</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Eu.</span>561</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Heracl.</span>931</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> Med., <b class="b3">αὐχήσασθαι· καυχήσασθαι</b>, Hsch.— Never in S. (<b class="b3">ἐπ-, ἐξ-αυχέω</b>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">El.</span>65</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ant.</span>390</span>); rare in Com. and Prose.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[boast]] (Hdt.).<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">κενε-αυχής</b> [[idle boasting]] (Il.)<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">αὔχη</b> [[boasting]], [[pride]] (Pi.; <b class="b3">αὑχάν καύχησιν</b> H.; wrong Güntert Reimwortbildungen 153f.)<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Unexplained. Not from <b class="b3">εὔχομαι</b> with Chantr. Adontz, Mél. Boisacq 1, 10 derives the word from <b class="b3">αὐχήν</b>, as [[keep ones neck proudly]]. Fur. 391 considers non-IE origin, with <b class="b3">καυχάομαι</b>. (Elicegui, Emer. 37 (1969) 194 also connects <b class="b3">καυχ-</b>, assuming a laryngeal, which seems impossible: a laryngeal does not give <b class="b2">k-</b>.) Rather from a Pre-Gr. uvular, Beekes Pre-Gr.