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[insan]

Language contact and the lexicon in the history of Cypriot Greek
Yazar: Stavroula Varella

http://books.google.com.tr/books?id=r8w ... &q&f=false

A great book about GC dialect and partly TC dialect...

Varellagi mou did a very good job!

Varellagi= fat=şişgo?

[Filitsa]

Thanks for posting this ... quite interesting.

[denizaksulu]

Language contact and the lexicon in the history of Cypriot Greek
Yazar: Stavroula Varella

http://books.google.com.tr/books?id=r8w ... &q&f=false

A great book about GC dialect and partly TC dialect...

Varellagi mou did a very good job!

Varellagi= fat=şişgo?

I thought Varellagi = little barrel? Stavroulla sounds full of...........Commandaria.

[denizaksulu]

Interesting post Insan. Now we know that the Turkish handshake is in fact Italian Tocca = Toka, as is a belts buckle.

I'd like to read GR's take on the above book.

[denizaksulu]

On page 28 there is reference that the 'Assizes' were translates from Frankish into 'Greek' so that the people of Cyprus could understand it. The word for 'Greek' was 'Romaika'. Was/is this term (Romeika) also used on the Greek mainland today or then. Can someone please answer. I am sure Demetra could.

[Get Real!]

Varellagi= fat=şişgo?

Varelli = Barrel
Varellaki = Little barrel

[kurupetos]

It can be used as a metaphor for a short fat person like Deniz.

[denizaksulu]

It can be used as a metaphor for a short fat person like Deniz.

You I****, I am taller than GR. And GR is a giant.

Should you not be dozing as per usual.

[kurupetos]

I'm taller than both of you, which makes you dwarfs.

[denizaksulu]

I'm taller than both of you, which makes you dwarfs.

I did not even say how tall we were. You are all guesswork. Go back to your slumber.