COMPOUND: ἀέκων, –ουσα, –ον
CATEGORIZATION: A [α+A]
MEANING: ‘involuntary, constrained’
ETYMOLOGY: ἀ- privativum + ἑκών, ἑκοῦσα, ἑκόν ‘readily’
OCCURRENCE: Il. I, 301, 327, 348, 430; X, 530; XI, 281, 519, 557, 716; XIII, 367; XIV, 105; XVI, 204, 369; XXI 59; XXII, 400; Od. I, 199, 403; II, 130; III, 484, 494; IX, 405; X, 266, 489; XX, 343
CASE/GENDER/NUMBER: nom. m. sg., nom. f. sg., gen. m. sg., acc. m. sg., acc. f. sg., nom. m. du., nom. m. pl., acc. m. pl.
HEADEDNESS: endocentric  (right-headed)
CLASSIFICATION: determinative – karmadhāraya
NOTES: accent shift in compounding. ἀ- privativum is not a free word in Greek