akouein

Acoustics comes from the Greek "akouein," meaning "to hear.

Acoustics ewillett 2007

[546] Reading [Greek: akouein], which seems far the best reading.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

Ep. 1: tou theou tou kai to legein kai to akouein hēmin chorēgountos aitoumai dothēnai emoi men eipein houtōs, k.t.l. (“God, who supplies us both with speech and hearing, I pray to grant me utterance so as,” etc.).

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

And here the genitive is probably not governed by akouein, but used absolutely.

A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

LXX are akoe akouein, zoe zen, thanato apothanei, thanato thanatousthai, salpingi salpizein.

A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

* tou theou tou kai to legein kai to akouein hēmin chorēgountos aitoumai dothēnai emoi men eipein houtōs, k.t.l.: [1510] 1

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

* akoe akouein, zoe zen, thanato apothanei, thanato thanatousthai, salpingi salpizein: [1552] 1

A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

[668] See Homil.xvii. 14-19, where censure is passed on the view that it is safer “to learn by means of an apparition than from the clearness of truth itself (hupo optasias akouein ē par autēs enargeias, 14); ho optasia pisteuōn, we read, ē horamati kai enupniō agnoei tini pisteuei (“He who believes in an apparition or vision and dreams, does not know in whom he is believing”).

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

[Greek: Hoi men houtôs horôntes ta tôn êtuchêkotôn erga, hôste totês paroimias, horôntes mê horan, kai akouontas mê akouein.

Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852