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Spartan accordion

valeriy_osipov wrote in linguaphiles Oct 25, 2024 01:49

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words, russian, bulgarian, greek

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EUROPA, etymology

new_etymology wrote in linguaphiles Jul 17, 2021 09:26

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language history, semitic, hungarian, greek, finnish, hebrew, russian, estonian

The non-Greek substrate lexical layer in Greece

new_etymology wrote in linguaphiles May 27, 2021 15:58

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etymology, language history, toponyms, greek, finnish, linguistics, finno-ugric, names, estonian

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ЛАВР, LAURUS, LAUREL and its related words

new_etymology wrote in linguaphiles May 22, 2021 02:14

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toponyms, russian, loanwords, names, english, etymology, words, language history, germanic, vocabulary, learning languages, language origins, greek, old english, multilingual, interlingua, research projects, german, estonian, classical languages

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It's all Greek to me

topum wrote in linguaphiles Apr 10, 2016 21:53

This was in Thessaloniki. Anyone can translate it?
Many thanks.

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Problems with excellent-looking Greek (ancient and modern) resources site

tortipede wrote in linguaphiles May 30, 2014 21:42

I recently came across the excellent-looking www.projethomere.com when I was looking for a decent online Modern Greek dictionary. I've tried opening two or three different texts on there (specifically, Volume 9 of the Dimitrakou dictionary) but all I get is a cute little drawing of a bicycle with two spinning "loading" discs for wheels, and the ( Read more... )

ancient greek, dialects, dictionaries, greek

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Modern Greek: music/book/movie recs

blackxlupin wrote in linguaphiles Dec 22, 2013 20:14

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music, books, movies, assimil, recommendations, greek

Help with Greek mythology

salamandraga wrote in linguaphiles Sep 23, 2013 10:25

I need help with figuring out how to refer to a few mythological beings in the singular ( Read more... )

plural, greek

Greek words in other Languages!

alohalife wrote in linguaphiles Mar 11, 2012 22:50

Hello everyone, I was just wondering... how many words we use everyday are coming from greek words? Think about the words you use when you speak with your friends, how many of the words you use are actually greek? I don't mean to sound bitch or anything, I'm just curious. If you want to leave a comment with some of those words and in which language ( Read more... )

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More polyglots

panjomin wrote in linguaphiles Feb 21, 2012 07:45

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17101370

afrikaans, spanish, linguaphile-ness, dutch, learning languages, greek, french, hebrew, language acquisition, russian, german, catalan