Wednesday, March 21, 2012

step

διάβημα thee AH vee mah... I don't know how this differs from βήμα, other than βήμα is a physical step, and I wonder if διάβημα is just the purely metaphorical meaning of step. 

surplus

πλεόνασμα

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

οροθετικός

infected / HIV positive

blog

ιστολόγιο

οmen

οιωνός... Ι knew this word (ee--oh--NOSS) but not how to spell it. Related words are  προοιωνίζομαι, foretell, and Οιωνοσκόπος, ee-oh-no-SKO-poss, one who notices omens, i.e. tells the future.

nautical terms

I don't know these words in English OR Greek, except for the usual stern, bow, deck, mast, and, now, gunwale...

http://www.naftotopos.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89&Itemid=62&lang=en 

gunwale

κουπαστή... where did I hear this word? Where didn't I hear it... the Greeks are always shipping, always shipping out, and always hanging over the gunwale wondering, weeping... tons of songs have this word koo-pah--stee in them. 

Monday, March 5, 2012

manikins

ανδρείκελα (an--three--keh--lah) from the same song; the people Persephone sees in Hades look like manikins.

anvil / stithy

αμόνι (ahMOnee) from this song, which is about Persephone and mentions Hefaistus' anvil


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzCifjBc_c4&feature=related