Your Greek Word On A Sunday

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  Υπό means 'under'. Θέση originally meant 'placement', 'pos...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  What do you think when you hear the phrase 'Greek Summer'? The three S&ap...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  There are mentions in Ancient Greek texts of a plant's root used to ease Asthm...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  There is an ancient Greek epic poem called Theogony composed by Hesiodus in 7th cen...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  I've decided to keep this episode very short, in line with what the word means...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  This word followed the route most Greek words took to come here. Greek-Latin-Old Fr...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  Δείκνυμι (diknimi) is an ancient Greek verb and it means 'I show', '...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  I've decided to give myself a little cheerful research for a change and tell y...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  Ancient Greece has seen a fair amount of different types of ruling, from Kings to D...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!   In my search for information on this word in English, I was told by the internet,...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  Δεσπόζω is an ancient Greek Verb, The adjective is Δεσποτικός and the noun Δεσπότης...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  Κατά (kata) is a preposition and, among other things, it means 'down'. Στ...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  An Ελεγεία in ancient Greece was a religious poem made from two different verses. A...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  Music is primarily comprised of three parts, Αρμονία/Harmony, Ρυθμό/Rhythm and Μελω...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  Ρις (Rhis) in ancient Greek (and as a medical term, in modern Greek too) means &apo...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  Ανά (ana) in Greek, is both a preposition and a prefix depending on its use and one...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  Μυώ (meo) is an ancient Greek verb and it means I initiate someone into a religion,...

Before we start today, i'd like to reassure you that, there's nothing wrong with your podcast platform or this podcast. Human error however, made the episode supposed to be released last week, released much earlier. You can still listen to the word DECADE on the same Sunday Acme was released. That means the 26th of December 2021 came out with a double episode. Ok, on with today's wo...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  Happy New Year everyone! Today, we're going to talk about parties. The preposi...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  With the winter solstice right behind us, New Year's eve coming up and this be...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  Δέκα (Deka) in both ancient and modern Greek means, ten (so does Dasa in Sanskrit b...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  Χορός (choros) in both modern and ancient Greek, means Dance. Αυλός (aulus) means p...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  Συν (syn) is a preposition and it means 'with' . Πίπτω (Pipto)is an ancie...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  Μανθάνω (Manthano) in ancient Greek and Μαθαίνω (Matheno) in modern, means 'I...

(Piano music)  Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!  Words transitioning from the Greek Alphabet to the Latin one, usually get a do-over...