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[Filitsa]

Did tzepi come from cep, or did cep come from tzepi?

[fig head]

IS THAT LIKE DID THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG COME 1ST ???

[denizaksulu]

Did tzepi come from cep, or did cep come from tzepi?

Cep is a Boletus type 'wild mushroom'. Posibly Latin derived.

Tsepi is Greek to me. Perhaps the Greeks nicked it?

[CBBB]

Did tzepi come from cep, or did cep come from tzepi?

Cep is a Boletus type 'wild mushroom'. Posibly Latin derived.

Tsepi is Greek to me. Perhaps the Greeks nicked it?

Pot, kettle, black?

[Bananiot]

Cep (the c pronounced as tsh) is a Turkish word and we have nicked it to make up tshiepi (G Cypriot) or tsepi (G Greek).

[denizaksulu]

Hey, hey........I was just joking.

Cep, is indeed a Turkish word meaning 'pocket', but I was not referring to that.

[Filitsa]

IS THAT LIKE DID THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG COME 1ST ???

That was to be the initial title of this thread (great minds think alike), but I thought better of it, whereas the answer has become obvious to me.

[Filitsa]

Did tzepi come from cep, or did cep come from tzepi?

Cep is a Boletus type 'wild mushroom'. Posibly Latin derived.

Tsepi is Greek to me. Perhaps the Greeks nicked it?

... Better known as Porcini, "Wise Guy."

[Filitsa]

Cep (the c pronounced as tsh) is a Turkish word and we have nicked it to make up tshiepi (G Cypriot) or tsepi (G Greek).

Okay, so if "we" nicked it, and considering Greeks had pockets long before the Turks came around, then what's the Greek word?

[denizaksulu]

Did tzepi come from cep, or did cep come from tzepi?

Cep is a Boletus type 'wild mushroom'. Posibly Latin derived.

Tsepi is Greek to me. Perhaps the Greeks nicked it?

... Better known as Porcini, "Wise Guy."

To you perhaps. I will stick to Boletus edulis thank you.