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Message posted by lux on 13 January 2006 at 1:57pm - IP Logged Legal Disclaimer
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I was reading the interesting section about Greek life..It's very common also in the south of Italy to celebrate the name day, maybe because of our common roots. We call the name day "onomastico" which comes from the ancient greek word "onomastikòs"( from the verb "onomàzein", which means "to name"). 

Ciao! 

 

Message posted by Bob and Wendy (Uncle Bob) on 14 January 2006 at 1:52am - IP Logged Legal Disclaimer Corfu Photos
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Nice one Lux.

Thank you for your comments.

With relevance to the connection between Southern Italy and Greece. One of my Greek friends here in UK, recently attended a wedding somewhere in the hills of Southern Italy , where the local dialect was ancient Greek, even in schools. All the major participants in the wedding were dressed in what I know as traditional mainland Greek costume. For the men that was, foustanella and tsaroukia, (l;ittle white skirts and pomp-pom shoes) with detailed white shirts and embroidered waistcoats. I was not told what the women were dressed in.

Bob.


Message posted by Roseanne on 14 January 2006 at 10:09am - IP Logged Legal Disclaimer Corfu Photos
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Hellenic, Italic, and Celtic. Were interlink together ancient languages which today still have similar …ie present day Scottish Gaelic

 

 

 

A French definition says that 'prehistory stops with the first written document'. By this definition, the Celts qualify as a prehistoric people. They were the first of the prehistoric peoples north of the Alps whose names were known to the Greek and Roman world, for they shared common features, including some linguistic similarities. The languages of the Celts belong to the great Indo-European family of languages, which also includes Anatolian, Hellenic, Italic, Illyrian, Slavonic, Baltic, Germanic, Armenian, Indo-Iranian, and Tocharian.

 

Like the other people associated with that region, the ancient Celts spoke a common Indo-European language taught to them by the Hellenic (Greeks) …..if I remember right?

 

Interesting Topic

Roseanne


Message posted by lux on 14 January 2006 at 4:01pm - IP Logged Legal Disclaimer
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Dear Bob,

probably your friend  went to Puglia or Calabria: in those regions live some Greek-speaking communities. For example I know that in Puglia there's a town called "Calimera", which means good morning in Greek..and its inhabitants speak a dialect called "Griko", a mix of ancient Greek, Byzantine and Italian. I think that everything comes from the fact that wide areas of the South were part of the so-called "Magna Graecia".  Even next to where I live there's an archeological site of an ancient Greek colony ! In Italy we have different kind of high schoolsand guess what? in my high school I had to study ancient Greek too..and now I hope my English is not too bad!

Ciao  :-)

 

              

Message posted by Phil(Hellene) on 14 January 2006 at 6:21pm - IP Logged Legal Disclaimer
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The Celtic link, maybe that's why I feel so at home there.

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Phil(hellene)
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Message posted by Phil(Hellene) on 14 January 2006 at 6:31pm - IP Logged Legal Disclaimer
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Celtic link, maybe that backs up my feelings of coming home when in Greece.

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Phil(hellene)
Full bloodied Cornishman

Message posted by Eileen on 14 January 2006 at 6:35pm - IP Logged Legal Disclaimer Corfu Photos
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Celtic link, maybe that backs up my feelings of coming home when in Greece.

Count me in there too Phil.

 


Message posted by nat on 17 January 2006 at 12:25pm - IP Logged Legal Disclaimer
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I know in some parts of Greece,where my family originate,we have a naming day when a child is born. It is like a christening. For example, we name after the family. which is usually the saint which looks after the island. In Corfu, alot of men are called Spiros, that is because ST SPIRIDION protects the island, and usually where their ancestors are from. Same as the name Kostas,originally from Athens as ST KOSTADION looks after the city. If a couple marry, the 1st born child is name after the girls father or mother,depending on sex of the child,next child is named after the boys father or mother and so on.


Message posted by jaffy on 17 January 2006 at 12:57pm - IP Logged Legal Disclaimer
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In Corfu it tends to be the names of the father's parents that are used to name the children. The only problem being when that father has brothers and sisters and they also decide to name their children after the parents you then end up with complete chaos. I knew a family of 3 brothers who all married and all had a boy and a girl, and there were 3 sets of cousins called Kostandinos and Maria !!!!!!! mmmmmmmmm I'm not going to comment on that !

Sarah



              


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