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Yannis the Macedonian
Jun 2, 2004, 2:56:04 PM6/2/04
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"Ilinden" <ili...@sympatico.ca> wrote: ...
> Let us examine a few more words. There are in Greek two classes of words
> which are not Greek by origin, words ending (Like 'thalasa') in -assos
> or -essos, mostly place names- Halicarnasos, Herodotus' birthplace, is
> an example- and words ending in -inthos, such as 'hyacinthos',
> 'corinthos', 'labyrinthos' all of which are familiar to us. Foreign
> importations? Corinth originally a foreign settlement? Possibly. What is
> more surprising than 'Corinth' is that 'Athens is not a Greek name, nor
> the goddess Athena. (Taken from "The Greeks" written by H.D.F. Kitto,
> page 14)
> Ilinden the SlavoSkopian
> Let us examine a few more words. There are in Greek two classes of words
> which are not Greek by origin, words ending (Like 'thalasa') in -assos
> or -essos, mostly place names- Halicarnasos, Herodotus' birthplace, is
> an example- and words ending in -inthos, such as 'hyacinthos',
> 'corinthos', 'labyrinthos' all of which are familiar to us. Foreign
> importations? Corinth originally a foreign settlement? Possibly. What is
> more surprising than 'Corinth' is that 'Athens is not a Greek name, nor
> the goddess Athena. (Taken from "The Greeks" written by H.D.F. Kitto,
> page 14)
> Ilinden the SlavoSkopian
Aigai, Pella, Aiani, Thessaloniki, Erigon, Atalanta, Alalkomenai, Idomenai,
Argos, Arnissa, Alexandreia, Philippoupolis, ....... Why Macedonians named
after Greek names AAALLLLLLLLLLL the cities they built or renamed ?? Were
they a vicious people??
Yannis
Macedonia, Greece
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