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Your Greek Word On A SundayHilariousLet me tell you what happens when you're your own producer, editor and, host. You spend a few hours of research and writing your episode then, you get into the booth, do a few takes so you have options, edit everything to an episode you really like and when you're about to save it-at which point you've spend the better part of you afternoon-a message pops up telling you 'that episode already exists' and you remember that you've done that word two years ago! I think it's for the best as the word I found instead, fits perfectly that s...
2025-04-1301 minYour Greek Word On A SundayTripodBefore we begin, I have an announcement; From December 1st our account on X will no longer exist. Instead we're moving into Blue Sky and I'll put the handle on the description so you can find us there. @yourgreeksunday.bsky.social . I think it's a much friendlier platform. If you don't have an account there, you can find us on Instagram @yourgreeksunday where I also post videos with additional information on specific episodes or, you can follow my acting page on Facebook : Emmanuela Lia, a place where I share all my work including this podcast. And finally, if you're...
2024-11-2401 minYour Greek Word On A SundayBibleBefore we begin, just a little reminder that you can send your comments and questions to yourgreeksunday@gmail.com, follow us in Twitter @yourgreeksunday, and myself on instagram at emmanuela_lia On with today's word! (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! Βιβλίο (vivlio) in Greek m...
2023-05-2801 minYour Greek Word On A SundayKaleidoscope(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 is a Greek word that wasn't invented by the Greeks! Sir David Brewster, was a Scottish physicist known for his work in optics and polarized light. In 1817, he patented his reflective mirrors toy and named it by combining th...
2023-01-1500 minYour Greek Word On A SundaySchedule(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! Any New Year's resolutions yet? Well, in Ancient Greek, 'Σχέδη' (Schedi) meant papyrus leaf-also known as writing material-. In modern , it means both plan and sketch. The outline of something, the general plan for the future or the full-on...
2023-01-0800 minYour Greek Word On A SundayPhoenix(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! Here's a little myth of strength and beauty to kickstart the month. The Ancient Greeks believed there was a creature born way before the gods that held all the knowledge. It had the most bea...
2023-01-0101 minYour Greek Word On A SundayPole(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! Merry Christmas, everyone celebrating and have a wonderful Sunday, those of you who don't. Πολώ is an ancient Greek verb for 'I turn' , 'I pivot' . In the beginning, it was mainly used in geometry and philosophy until the noun was solely...
2022-12-2500 minYour Greek Word On A SundaySynchronisation & Synchronicity(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! Today, I'll be telling you about two Greek words. One was invented by the Greeks and the other by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung. Συν (syn) means' with', 'and', 'additionally'. Χρόνος (chronos) means 'time'. The combination can give us two different meanings de...
2022-12-1800 minYour Greek Word On A SundayBarbarian(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! Nowadays, in order to describe something we don't understand, we make a reference to a difficult language for us. The English say 'It's all Greek to me', the Greeks say 'It's all Chinese to me' and so on. In an...
2022-12-1100 minYour Greek Word On A SundayScepticism(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! Σκέπτομαι (skeptome) in Ancient Greek and Σκέφτομαι (skeftome) in modern, means ' I think' . The noun is Σκέψη (skepsi). In Ancient Greece, being a Σκεπτικιστής (skeptikistis) meant you belonged to a philosophical group that doubted human knowledge can be obtained. Starting from Pyrros, to Descartes's attempt to cont...
2022-12-0401 minYour Greek Word On A SundayDichotomy(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! Τέμνω (temno) in Greek means 'I cut', the noun is Τομή (tomi). Δυο (dio) means 'two' and when combined it becomes Διχο-(dicho). The combined word came into English from Latin and referred to the philosophical and political division theory of: cutting in two different c...
2022-11-2700 minYour Greek Word On A SundayMelancholy(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! Well, I know I've said I won't be doing any medical terms but this one is an exception and has a very interesting origin. Μέλον and Μελανό (melon-melano) in both ancient and modern Greek, means 'dark coloured'. Χολή (Holi) means 'bile'. The original diagnosi...
2022-11-2000 minYour Greek Word On A SundayGherkin(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! Cucumis anguria, is the official name of small cucumbers. In medieval Greek it was called 'ανγκούριον' (angurion) , meaning 'immature', 'not ripe'. The Dutch turned it into an 'agurk' or 'gurk' and pickled it. In the 17th century it came to Engl...
2022-11-1300 minYour Greek Word On A SundayMyriads(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! Xenophon of Athens, was an army general, historian , and philosopher. His most famous work is 'Anabasis', that details the army expedition to Persia led by Cyrus who wanted to seize the throne from his brother. I will not bother yo...
2022-11-0601 minYour Greek Word On A SundayApocalypse(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! Απο (apo) is a preposition meaning 'from' and 'away from' (such as, in this case) Καλύπτω (kalipto) is a verb and it means 'covering', 'concealing'. In both ancient and modern Greek, the combined word means to 'reveal' something but in Christian texts , whic...
2022-10-3000 minYour Greek Word On A SundayHermit(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 is a prime example of a metaphor gaining its own power and becoming a stand-alone word. Ερημος (erimos) in both Ancient Greek and Sanskrit(we find it at the same time with minor differences) meant 'the desert' . A person that wou...
2022-10-2300 minYour Greek Word On A SundayPatriot(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 is a word that has stayed intact from the beginning, including its derivatives. Πατήρ (patir) means 'Father'. Πατρίδα (patrida) 'Fatherland', and the one who loves their fatherland, ΠΑΤΡΙΩΤΗΣ/PATRIOT Instagram @yourgreeksunday ,Blue Sky @yourgreeksunday.bsky.socialemail...
2022-10-1600 minYour Greek Word On A SundayMurmur(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! *Reads in ancient Greek* 'Ποταμών άφρω μορμύροντα ιδών' That's what Homer called a boiling river's sound, in the Iliad. The word moved to Latin keeping its meaning and then into French to describe a human hum. Which is, what it has come to mean in modern Greek...
2022-10-0900 minYour Greek Word On A SundayEpochHello and welcome to Season 6 of Your Greek Word On A Sunday. A little bit of news before we begin our word journey this season. We have, now , a new home; it's called Buzzsprout and you can find our link on our Twitter page @yourgreeksunday, give us a follow while you're there for updates on our episodes, top listening countries and audience of the week. . Moving house means more podcast platforms we can be found on and a new email where you can send your questions, comments or even word ideas if you've got them, email us...
2022-10-0201 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayTantalising(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! Welcome to the last episode of the season! I have a little gruesome myth for you today, so we can leave all the ugliness behind and step into the summer care free. Thant's what Greek myths do, no? He wa...
2022-07-0301 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayAstrology & Astronomy(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! Here are two words that started as part of one practice. A practice that was considered by philosophers, Kings and scientists a very serious one. Serious enough to be included in the 7 Liberal Arts. Do look that one up, it...
2022-06-2601 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayCalm(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! Since we seem to be having a mini summer here in the UK, I couldn't but do this word today. Καύμα (kavma) in both ancient and modern Greek means 'Heat'. There's a particular time of the day during a Greek summer...
2022-06-1901 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayMonopoly(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! Μονός (monos) means 'single', 'sole'. Πωλείν (polin) is an infinitive and it means 'to sell', 'to trade'. Someone having the sole trade of goods is having the ΜΟΝΟΠΩΛΕΙΟ/MONOPOLYInstagram @yourgreeksunday ,Blue Sky @yourgreeksunday.bsky.socialemail...
2022-06-1200 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayAnarchy(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'm quite tempted to go into politics with this word and yes, this might be the time but it's not the place for it so, Αν (an) as a first component in a word, is a prefix and it means 'wit...
2022-06-0600 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayApotheosis(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! Απο is a preposition and it means 'from' or 'as'. Θεός (Theos)means 'god' The combined infinitive that arrived in England , intact, during the 1600 from Latin. is αποθεούν (apotheoun) and it means to make someone god-like, to worship them like a god, to deify. ΑΠΟΘΕΩΣ...
2022-05-2900 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayTrilogy(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! Τρία (Tria) in Greek means 'Three'. Λόγος(Logos) means speech, rational thinking and...story. In ancient Greece, during theatre competitions, the playwrights could present a comedy. a tragedy, a satyrical drama or a tragedy split in three parts (there's is actually a number of...
2022-05-2200 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayHypothesis(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', 'position' . It still does but 'seat' is an equally used meaning. Anyway, today we'll focus on the meaning 'position', either literally or metaphorically. The combined word means the 'foundation', the basis of something and it arrive...
2022-05-1500 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayCanopy(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' right? Sea, Sun and Sunsets! Well..if you grow up in Greece, the minute the temperature rises above 25 you know you have to take cover wh...
2022-05-0801 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayLiquorice(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 Asthma and inflammation. It grows in Northern Greece(among other places in the world) and there's even a village named after it. Γλυκό means 'sweet', ρίζα means 'root'. The...
2022-05-0101 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayChaos(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 century BC, about how the gods came to be. After his invocation to the muses, which was common practice in the epic poetry of the ti...
2022-04-2401 min
Your Greek Word On A SundaySynopsis(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. Συν means 'with' and is also the word for mathematical sign of plus(+). Οψις or Οψη (opsis) means 'view'. The combined word means, seeing the sum, the summary of s...
2022-04-1700 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayAllegory(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 French-Middle English-Modern English. It arrived around the 14th century and it hasn't changed meaning. Αλλος (Allos) means 'other', 'another', Αγορα (agora) was the place in Ancient Greece where you'd go to...
2022-04-1001 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayParadigm(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', 'I present'. Para is a preposition meaning 'beside'. The act of putting two or more things side by side to compare them or to make a point is called παρ...
2022-04-0300 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayDolphins(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 you a myth. These magnificent creatures were believed to be two things: the link between the human and the divine and initially, humans! There are ma...
2022-03-2701 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayOligarchy(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 Democracy and it's been a bumpy ride. Άρχειν (archin) is an ancient Greek infinitive and it means 'to rule'. It has lasted a very long time due...
2022-03-2001 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayPhilodox(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, multiple times, that this is a very rare word. I say we bring it back. It's a word that has two meanings and whi...
2022-03-1301 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayDespotic(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, meaning the absolute ruler of the land. The word didn't always have negative connotations , it was used for powerful people like the Pharaohs or the Emperors in the Byzantium and after 1453 wh...
2022-03-0600 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayCatastrophe(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'. Στροφή (strofi) means 'turn'. The combined word originally meant 'a turn for the worse' but it arrived in England through Latin literature in the 1500 where it was used to describe the...
2022-02-2700 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayElegy(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. An hexameter and a pentameter. The poems escaped religion and started getting thematically wider but they all had one thing in common. Lament. Like the one used on t...
2022-02-2000 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayMelody(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 Μελωδία. That last one is a combined word from μέλος(melos) meaning 'part' and ωδή (ode) meaning 'song'. The level of complexity of a Μελωδία is what makes a song of clear and balanced form. In Latin it meant 'a...
2022-02-1300 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayRhinoceros(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 'nose'. Κέρας (Keras) means 'horn' . Since in Greek 'I' is pronounced as 'E' and the Greek alphabet doesn't have the letter 'C' at all, the Latin version of...
2022-02-0600 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayAnalysis(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 of its meanings is 'again'-'going over something'. Λύω (Lyo) is a verb and it means to dissolve, to loosen. So, when you loosen something or go ov...
2022-01-3000 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayMystic(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, I induct. The ceremony for that induction is called a μυστήριον (mystirion). The biggest religious festival in ancient Greece was the Ελευσίνια μυστήρια (elefsinia mystiria) to celebrate and worship the goddess Demeter...
2022-01-2301 min
Your Greek Word On A SundaySyringeBefore 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 word(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, E...
2022-01-1601 min
Your Greek Word On A SundaySymposium(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 preposition 'συν' means with/together. Πόση means 'drink'. In ancient Greece a Συμπόσιο was a social gathering for men where they would, drink wine, recite poetry, converse and listen to musicia...
2022-01-0200 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayDecade(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 by the way). Δεκάς (dekas) means a group or ten parts of something, In Latin is Decadem and in English from the middle of the 15th century, it...
2021-12-2600 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayAcme(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 being the last episode of the year, I couldn't think of a better word. Ακμή in Greek means the highest point of something, both literally and metaph...
2021-12-2600 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayCarols(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 pan-pipe or flute. In Ancient Greece there was a festival in honour of Dionysus, in that festival Theatre was born but also, a long tradition of religious dances to the sound...
2021-12-1900 min
Your Greek Word On A SundaySymptom(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 ancient Greek verb ,still in use today, and one of its meanings is 'I occur'. The combined infinitive is Συμπίπτειν (sympiptin)and it means that something occurs at the same time as somethi...
2021-12-1200 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayMathematics(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 learn'. Τέχνη (techne) means 'art' but also 'craft'. Around 600BC a man called Θαλής (Thales)of Miletus decided to put all his efforts in order to prove that not all phenomena are caused by the Gods but...
2021-12-0501 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayHyper(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 in both spelling and pronunciation. Thankfully in most of them, you can still detect similarities in the spelling. Today's word is one of them. Υπερ started as an...
2021-11-2800 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayPanic(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! Greek Myths are so complex and -more often than not- linked to each other that it's very difficult to focus on one story. Today's myth is one of those and I deliberately leave out a few of the names an...
2021-11-2101 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayDraconian(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! Laws in Ancient Greece weren’t always as fair and democratic as we might think. Until the 7th century BC the higher classes were setting the rules and laws verbally and to their benefit. Revenge killings because of family feud...
2021-11-1402 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEcology(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! While the COP26 climate summit takes place I thought it be good to do an episode of a relative word. Οίκος in Greek means home -ology is a suffix used to apply expertise in the word that is attached to. Accordin...
2021-11-0700 min
Your Greek Word On A SundaySarcophagus(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 halloween to those parts in the word celebrating, I promise to do a carnival episode come February. These objects were used in ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome respectively they were always placed above ground unless they cont...
2021-10-3101 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayPeripatetic(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! Before we begin today I’d like to give a shout out to two amazing female podcasters that kept me company with their show over the summer. Ladies who London podcast are Emily Dell and Alex Lacy and their both...
2021-10-2401 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayLethargy(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! As we’re well into autumn now, grab a hot brew sit back and enjoy today’s myth. Αργός (argos) in Ancient Greece meant both fast and slow depending on how it was used. Now days it only means slow. Λήθη (Lethe) in Ancien...
2021-10-1701 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayAnecdote(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! The first reason I love this word is because it has remained the same since ancient times, despite the shifts in meaning. The second reason is that it’s 3 words in one. ‘A’ is a prefix and means without, if the r...
2021-10-1001 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayTriumphHello and welcome to season 5 of 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! Hello! Happy autumn everyone and for our friends across the pond, happy fall! I recently realised that although this is our 5th season or series if you like, we’ve only been running for 3 years and that’s because in the...
2021-10-0301 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayPolyglot(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! Welcome to the last episode for this season! I decided to leave you with a word that reflects our listeners this year who are based all over the globe. From Russia to Canada and so many countries in between th...
2021-06-2700 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayPatriarchy(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! Αρχή (arhi) in Greek has two meanings 'Authority', either legal or moral and 'Principle'. Πατήρ (patir) in Ancient Greek and Πατέρας (pateras) in modern means 'father'. The status quo, in societies, cultures (or households) where the father figure or the men are setting the rules...
2021-06-2000 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayParallelHello, 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! Παρά (para) is a preposition meaning ‘alongside’. Αλλος (allos) can be used in Greek as both a suffix like here and a prefix and it means ‘another’ . The combined word was an adjective and the original use by the ancient Greeks was in Mathematics to describe to equidist...
2021-06-1300 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayMonasteryHello, 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! Here is another word that remained, more or less, intact and travelled to England via Latin and Old French. However, this time it came specifically through religious texts and all the words associated with it have this one as their root. Μονός (monos) in both a...
2021-06-0600 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayProgrammeHello, 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! Pro (προ) is a Greek preposition and it means ‘before´. Γραφείν (grafin) is an Ancient Greek infinitive meaning ‘to write’. From their combination comes the noun πρόγραμμα (programma) and it originally meant to write a public notice before it takes effect. That meaning, exact word and spelling was kept in old La...
2021-05-3001 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayHarmonyHello, 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 is the story of one of the oldest devine royal couples in Greek mythology. It symbolises the bond between the east and the west. And I’m giving you the highlights here as this is a really long myth. So, Κάδμος (kadmos) and Αρμονία (armonia). Κάδμος...
2021-05-2301 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayHelicopterHello, 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! The history of this machine is more fascinating than the etymology of its name, so I’ll mention a few highlights of its origin. It started as a toy around 400bc, two sticks joined together, one vertical one horizontal. Spin it between your pal...
2021-05-1601 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayHydrateHello, 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! Ύδωρ (edor) in ancient Greek meant ‘water’. In modern Greek, only the adjectives and some combined words remain intact. No verbs. In English however, the verb arrived shorty after the French chemist Joseph Louis Proust coined the word in the 1880s, made from the Greek one...
2021-05-0900 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayBucolicHello, 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! The letter B in Greek is pronounced V. Keep that. Βους (vous) in both ancient and modern Greek means cow, ox and bull. Βουκολος (voukolos) is a Shepard and βουκολικό (vouloliko) used to mean ‘the field where cows feed’. The word jumbed to Latin almost intact bucolicus and came to the...
2021-05-0200 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayApothecaryHello, 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! Τιθημι(tithimi) is an Ancient Greek verb meaning ‘I place’ , ‘I position’. In combination with the preposition Aπό (apo) it means ‘I put away, I store, I safe keep’. The noun is αποθήκη (apothiki) and in modern Greek it still has the meaning the rest of the world dropped around...
2021-04-2500 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayGenerationHello, 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! Γίγνομαι (gignome)in Ancient Greek and γίνομαι (ginome) in modern, means ‘I come into being ,I become’ From that, come the nouns γένος (genos) meaning ‘race’ and γέννηση (gennisi) meaning ‘birth’. The collective name for people born within a specific timeline is called γενεά (genea). The word might have came to the English through the Latin ge...
2021-04-1800 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayApology (ft Konstantinos Kavakiotis)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! Hello, my name is Konstantinos Kavakiotis and I will be your host for today as Emmanuela wasn’t able to record this week. Από (apo) is a preposition and it means ‘from’. Λόγος (logos) means ‘speech’. The combination of the two is a word that means speak...
2021-04-1101 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayTheatreHello, 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 don’t know why I haven’t talked about this word so far. Maybe because I take it for granted and it took a pandemic to stop me. Θεαωμαι (Theaome) in Ancient Greek has three meanings. I watch, I observe, I contemplate . What is being wat...
2021-04-0400 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayDinosaurs(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! Although this is a Greek word it wasn’t created by the Greeks and I say ‘created’ because it’s a combined one. Δεινός (dinos) means ‘terrible’ or in this case ‘mighty’. Σαύρα (savra) means ‘lizard’. In 1841 the palaeontologist Sir Richard Owen decided to name the fossils of extinct r...
2021-03-2800 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayPalindrome(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! Παλιν (palin) or πάλι (pali) means 'again'. Δρόμος (dromos) means 'road, street'. The combination of the two means that when you go up and down the same literal or metaphorical road you are doing a ΠΑΛΙΝΔΡΟΜΗΣΗ/PALINDROMEInstagram @yourgreeksunday ,Blue Sky @yourgreeksunda...
2021-03-2100 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayCatalyst(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 ‘within’ or ‘from the inside’. Λύω (Leo) means I take apart, I solve (in a technical way). The combination forms a noun that means ‘anything that is applied and can separate a whole int...
2021-03-1400 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayToxic(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! War in the ancient world was different from what we know it to be today. Sure, it took longer to travel, to get inside information and to defeat your enemy without having to engage in close body combat. But st...
2021-03-0701 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayMacaroni(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! From China to Italy to France and the Arab world everyone has claimed the origin of this word and for good reason as it’s one of those things that popped up everywhere more or less at the same time...
2021-02-2801 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayPeriod(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! Περί (peri) in Greek is a preposition and it means ‘around’ οδός (odos) means 'way' or 'path'. In Ancient Greek the combination of the two meant going around in circles. But when the word came to Latin it was used figuratively and meant ‘tim...
2021-02-2100 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayIonian Sea(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! Ιω (Io) was a high priestess of the goddess Hera and another of Zeus’s lovers. When Hera found out about the affair, Zeus transformed Io into a cow to protect her from being found. But Hera was used to his tr...
2021-02-1401 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayDemons(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! Δέω (deo) in ancient Greek, meant 'I distribute' , 'I share'. Among the gods in Mount Olympus where those little creatures with the power to distribute good luck to all humans if the gods wished to do so. Imagine them as the g...
2021-02-0700 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayIdyllic(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 has had many meanings within the Greek language over the eons. During the Hellenistic period είδος (oedos) meant ‘beautiful shape’ or just ‘beauty’ and its diminutive was the official name of small poems describing the calm, simplicity and beautiful scenery...
2021-01-3100 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayAegean Sea(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 story has many legs but I’m focusing on one for the sake of this episode . In Ancient Greek mythology, Αιγέας (Aegeas) was an Athenian King and father of the hero Theseus. During one of the games organised in Athens whe...
2021-01-2401 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayTalent(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! Τάλαντο (talanto) in Ancient Greece and many other ancient civilisations was a mass measuring unit. The standard was One talanto equals the amount of water an average amphora (a jug ) would carry. Each country had their own jugs for measure. The talant...
2021-01-1701 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEpisode 17: PsycheHello I'm Emmanuela Lia and this is Your Greek Word on A Sunday,Ψυχή (psyche) means 'soul'. The verb is ψύχω (psycho) and it means 'to breath life into something or someone' so, it actually means 'breath of life'. In Greek-Roman mythology, Psyche was a young woman even prettier than Aphrodite herself and that made the Goddess furious. So much so, that she sent her son Eros to make a fool out of Psyche but then, they fell in love for real. The story is quite long but very interesting to read so, do have a look when you get some...
2018-04-2900 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEpisode 16: AthleteHello, I'm Emmanuela Lia and this is Your Greek Word On A SundayΑθλος (athlos) in ancient Greek meant an achievement in something that was awarded with a prise. It wasn't only connected with sports or games but also with great acts of bravery, labour, as in the twelve labours of Hercules. Anything that required mental and physical training and was at quite a difficult level. The person carrying this labour forward was an ΑΘΛΗΤΗΣ/ATHLETEInstagram @yourgreeksunday ,Blue Sky @yourgreeksunday.bsky.socialemail yourgreeksunday@gmail.com
2018-04-2200 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEpisode 15: OctopusHello, I'm Emmanuela Lia and this is Your Greek Word On A SundayΟκτάπους or as it's known in modern Greek Χταπόδι is a combined word of two and as much as it sounds Latin, it isn't. Οκτώ (octo) meaning 'eight' and the ancient Greek word for 'foot' Πους( pus), so basically, a creature with eight legs. OCTOPUSInstagram @yourgreeksunday ,Blue Sky @yourgreeksunday.bsky.socialemail yourgreeksunday@gmail.com
2018-04-1400 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEpisode 14: DramaHello, I'm Emmanuela Lia and this is Your Greek Word On A SundayΔρω (dro) means 'I act', 'I take action'. Since what was happening in an ancient Greek play was someone taking action against, within or over their fate and since that wasn't an easy matter to deal with a play like that would be called, ΔΡΑΜΑ/DRAMAInstagram @yourgreeksunday ,Blue Sky @yourgreeksunday.bsky.socialemail yourgreeksunday@gmail.com
2018-04-0800 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEpisode 13: Idea(Intro with soft 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!Today's word is a perfect example to use as a reply to those asking why don't I go deeper in these little words and their definition. When most Greek words are connected either with long myths or Greek...
2018-04-0101 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEpisode 12: Music(Intro with soft 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 Greek Mythology, there are nine Muses with Apollo as their leader Καλλιοπη (Calliope) the Muse of Epic Poetry, Κλειω (Clio) the Muse of History, Ευτερπη (Euterpe) the Muse of Lyric Poetry, Θαλεια (Thalia) the Muse of Comedy and folklore poetry, Μελπομενη (Melpomene) the Muse of Tragedy, Τερψιχορη( Ter...
2018-03-2501 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEpisode 11: Abyss(Intro with soft 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!The letter A pronounced >a< >Instagram @yourgreeksunday ,Blue Sky @yourgreeksunday.bsky.socialemail yourgreeksunday@gmail.com
2018-03-1800 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEpisode 10: Narcissus & Echo(Intro with soft 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!Νάρκισσος (Narcissos) in Greek mythology was a very handsome young man. He kept admiring his reflection on the river ignoring the call of the Nymph Ηχω (Echo) who was in love with him. As a result the voice of Ηχω started fading leaving...
2018-03-1000 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEpisode 9: Onomatopoeia(Intro with soft 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 always thought that the English find this word difficult not because of its meaning but because the original spelling has been kept. And that, can be a tad confusing since it's a different alphabet. Ονομα (onoma) in Greek means...
2018-03-0400 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEpisode 8: Hypocrite(Intro with soft 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!Αποκρίνομαι (apokrinome) in Greek means 'I verbally respond', 'I reply'. Αποκριτής or Υποκριτής (apokritis /ypokritis) in both ancient and modern Greek was the word for 'Actor'. If you've listened ot work 'Thespian', you know why and therefore it meant someone on stage pretending to be someon...
2018-02-2500 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEpisode 7: -ologies(Intro with soft 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!Logos's second meaning in Greek is 'Speech' the ability to apply words into a thought. When 'logos' as a word is combined with a specific subject, it means you're capable to analyse and talk about it in a...
2018-02-1800 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEpisode 6: Euphoria(Intro with soft 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!Ευφορία (Eforia) is a combined word. Eυ (ef) means 'good', 'well', 'nice' and 'φέρω' (fero) is the verb for 'carrying', 'bearing' so, 'ευ-φορία' (Eu-foria) is a state of wellbeing , feeling good, feeling nice. EUPHORIAInstagram @you...
2018-02-1000 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEpisode 5: Moron(Intro with soft 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!Μωρό (moro) in modern Greek means 'baby'. Μωρός (moros) in ancient Greek meant someone with the intellectual growth of a ten year-old and was used as an insult. MORONInstagram @yourgreeksunday ,Blue Sk...
2018-02-0400 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEpisode 4: Angel(Intro with soft 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!Αγγέλω (Angelo) is the Greek verb for 'announce'. Αγγελος (Angelos) is the one who makes the announcement, a messenger. In modern Greek, both meanings of the word are still in use and their difference is based on context. Either a simple messen...
2018-01-2800 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEpisode 3: Hippopotamus(Intro with soft 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!Ιππος (ippos) in ancient Greek means 'Horse' , ποταμός (potamos) means 'River'. So, what do you call a big as a horse animal who likes to spend it's time in salt-free waters? HIPPPOTAMUSInstagram @yourgreeksunday ,Blue Sky...
2018-01-2100 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayEpisode 2: LogicIntro with soft piano musicHello 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!Λόγος (logos) in Greek has two meanings, today we'll deal with one of them. It's the ability to think, the ability to analyse, the ability to apply reason to a given situation, to simply do your Math. LOGIC
2018-01-1400 min
Your Greek Word On A SundayThespian(soft 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!Θέσπις (Thespis) was the first man ever recorded to cut out from a group of people doing a libation to Dionysus and respond to them with a verse. THESPIAN.Instagram @yourgreeksunday ,Blue Sky @yourgr...
2018-01-0700 min