Your Greek Word On A Sunday

Emmanuela Lia
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Your Greek Word On A Sunday Podcast

Bite size podcast. Every Sunday, Greek words used in the English language. Travelling words connecting cultures.

  1. 28 JUL

    Episode 263: Myth

    Have you noticed how this year, the first word of every month has been a myth or myth related? Whether you have or not, thank you for listening and staying with me for another season. As this is the last episode before our summer break, I would be amiss not to mention amazing musician Laertes Malkotsis who composed our theme tune and Laurence Parsons who designed our logo. During the break, there might be a bolus episode or two so, keep your ears sharp and don't forget: you can find me on Ins...

    2 min

  2. 21 JUL

    Episode 262: Crocodile

    (Intro & piano music)Sometimes, Greeks seem to have many words for the same thing but to their defence, they had many years of thinking, inventing and applying words to very specific things. So although we've already found the word for 'pebble' in a previous episode, today, we're using another one Κρόκη (Kroke); And combined with the word for 'Lizard' Δίλος (Delos) It gives us the word, the ancient Greeks used for the animal found in the river Nile. As language evolved, the spelling in mo...

    1 min

  3. 14 JUL

    Episode 261: Chalk

    (Intro & piano music)Most English words have arrived here either via Latin or Germanic ones. And because it was easier geographically, the ones that originated in Greece are the Latin based ones. But there are some exceptions and today we have one of them. A small pebble in ancient Greece was called Κάλυξ (Calix) and in Latin it was called 'Calx' . However, the word did not go to the French and then English as usual but it rerouted to Germany where they used it for 'limestone'. So, when t...

    1 min

  4. 7 JUL

    Episode 260: Acrobat

    (Intro & piano music) This word came to English in 1845 from the French that gave it the specific meaning we use today but: Ακρη (akri) in both ancient and modern Greek, means 'the edge' of a place, regardless if it's a mountain or a sidewalk and Βαίνειν (venin) is the ancient Greek infinitive for 'walking/Going' so, the one who walks on the edge of any place not just a high one and not only a rope, is an ΑΚΡΟΒΑΤΗΣ/ACROBATTwitter @yourgreeksunday , Instagram @yourgreeksunday ,e...

    1 min

  5. 30 JUN

    Episode 259: Ecstasy

    Before we begin, I have a little announcement ,the podcast has finally made it to Instagram. It has now its own separate account than my acting one and it has everything , including videos with additional information and fun facts. So, go ahead, give us a follow @yourgreeksunday and I'll see you there! (Intro & piano music) Today's word is also linked to Dionysus as it's supposed to be one of the states his followers found themselves in, but it has a history of its own. Εκ (ek) ...

    2 min

  6. 23 JUN

    Episode 258: Panorama

    (Intro & piano music)Until I started this podcast, I didn't realise how many English speaking people named things by combining Greek words; either because they thought it would make them look smarter or because the words they chose, were the perfect description for their invention (and sounded smart).In 1787 the painter and inventor Robert Barker, created a 360 degree visual medium, patented under the title 'Apparatus for exhibiting Pictures'. The viewer would stand on a platform in the m...

    1 min

  7. 16 JUN

    Episode 257: Clerk

    (Intro and piano music)This is an English word based on an ancient Greek one that quickly changed meanings, started going on circles creating more words and making it-I'll be kind- fun to research. Κλήρος (Kleros) in ancient Greek meant 'Lot', 'piece of land' and subsequently 'inheritance', so far so good. A few hundred years go by and in the 5th book of the bible, people working as temple assistants were called Κληρικοί (Kleriki) because, and I quote '...therefore shall they have no in...

    1 min

  8. 9 JUN

    Episode 256: Platypus

    (Intro & Piano music)The internet reads for this creature; a duck billed, beaver tailed, otter footed, egg laying, aquatic creature native to Australia. Then, what is it doing bearing a Greek name? Before the Natural History Museum in London became the great institution it is today, it was part of the British Museum and its keeper, George Shaw, was the first to describe and accept this creature as a real animal, in 1799. He named it based on the look of its feet but that name was already ...

    1 min
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Bite size podcast. Every Sunday, Greek words used in the English language. Travelling words connecting cultures.

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  • Creator
    Emmanuela Lia
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2024
  • Episodes
    263
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2024 Your Greek Word On A Sunday
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